Follow my lead
Michael Cross looks at how NPfIT is lead by wider government priorities and who the real driving force behind the project is.
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iSoft claim Australian successes
iSoft have announced the initial rollout of its iPM PAS system at Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, near Sydney, Australia. The implementation of the patient administration system is the first stage of the Manchester-based company’s scheme to rollout iPM to 123 public hospitals in New South Wales. iSoft is working with the state’s healthcare IT […]
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Devon chooses Consensus for learning management
A learning management system supplied by CS Group has been chosen by five NHS trusts in the South Devon NHS Community to support their learning and development programmes. CS Group will supply the five trusts with its Consensus Learning Management System (LMS), which will initially be used to support the local training and administration requirements of the […]
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NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as IT, HR and finance to help deliver services more efficiently and avoid some trusts slipping into the red. The call came in a letter to the 156 NHS trusts that were in financial deficit last […]
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London trusts go for IP telephony
Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four NHS trusts in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington. The contracts cover the Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT), Islington PCT and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust – all served by […]
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Hampshire SHA payroll staff transfer to Xansa
Xansa’s NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a joint venture with the DH designed to centralise financial systems across the NHS, has signed up its first shared payroll service in a Strategic Health Authority in the south-west of England. Accounts staff at Hampshire Shared Financial Services (HSFS), who currently handle financial and payroll services for the area covered by Hampshire […]
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22 NHS organisations convert to shared services
The joint venture between outsourcing and technology specialists, Xansa ,and the Department of Health which offers shared finance and accounting services has attracted 22 NHS organisations since it started work. Xansa’s annual report says that since the joint venture, NHS Shared Business Services, was announced in October 2004, the number of NHS organisations using the financial and […]
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NHS Shared Business Services on launchpad
Xansa has announced that it is to formally launch NHS Shared Business Services, its joint venture with the Department of Health in which some back-office financial services will be computerised and outsourced, on schedule on 1 April 2005. A total of 47 of eligible NHS organisations have signed up for the project. As part of […]
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Version One updates document imaging with OCR
Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that allows invoice and purchase order data to be automatically scanned by optical character recognition (OCR). The DbArchive system, which was announced on Thursday at a briefing at the House of Commons, also features image conversion […]
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DH hoping for 50% takeup of new Xansa deal
The Department of Health has announced final details of its NHS shared financial services partnership with IT services firm Xansa, and is expecting half of the eligible NHS organisations to sign up over the next ten years. The public-private joint venture partnership will see Xansa taking over work from NHS Shared Financial Services, a centralised […]
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