Review calls for shake-up of pathology
The Department of Health should put in place IT connectivity for NHS pathology services as a matter of priority, a two-year review has concluded. The review of pathology services, chaired by Lord Carter of Coles, calls for DH electronic order communications pilots for primary care to be rolled out as soon as possible and suggests […]
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Kingston therapy supported by IMS Maxims
A new system for improving access to psychological therapies has gone live across Kingston Primary Care Trust, supported by software from IMS Maxims. The system is a response to the government’s commitment to the improving access to psychological therapies programme. Once referred, individuals are contacted by one of Turning Point’s wellbeing co-ordinators. They carry out […]
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Emergency and continuity planning strengthened
BT has won a contract from the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Communities and Local Government department to develop a national extranet for civil emergencies. The company will work alongside Ultra Electronics Datel to develop a National Resilience Extranet that should be live in 2009. The NRE will be a browser based system […]
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Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail
NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start “extended user acceptance testing” of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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Informatics Planning Guidance for primary care
Local health communities must fix a two-year timeline for the full roll-out of the NHS Summary Care Record and move to National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions for community services, the government has said. Informatics Planning Guidance issued today alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10 makes it clear that […]
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Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi
NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11, when the health service’s three year settlement comes to an end. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, announced by the Department of Health yesterday but only released onto its website this morning, […]
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Just champion
Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network that has now been integrated with core computer systems.
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IMS Maxims buys CSW assets
IMS Maxims Plc today announced it has acquired certain assets of CSW Group Limited, the Oxford-based health software developer currently in administration. IMS says it is now working closely with BT, to ensure a smooth transition of support takes place, for both the eSAP and CHIA solutions which were developed by CSW and deployed in areas […]
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Choose and Book slot availability improves
Problems with slot availability on Choose and Book are beginning to fall, with availability issues affecting between 12% and 13% of patients, compared with 20% three months ago, according to the e-booking team. Dr Stephen Miller, national medical director for Choose and Book, said slot availability issues have fallen over recent weeks but work still […]
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