CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England. Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone […]
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EPS tops 10m prescription mark
More than 10 million electronic prescription messages have now been transmitted using the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has announced. Latest figures from CfH show that 10,061,362 messages had been transmitted by 9 January as part of release one of the EPS project which allows pharmacists to scan prescription details into […]
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SystmOne to be offered in NWWM
TPP’s SystmOne is now being offered as an integrated primary care solution to users in the NHS Connecting for Health North West and West Midlands (NWWM) cluster with local service provider, CSC. The move was announced by TPP, the Leeds-based supplier that already supplies SystmOne in the North-east and Eastern clusters formerly managed by Accenture and taken over […]
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On the road
EHIPC talks to GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle about how CfH will use its new national GP engagement workshops.
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Keep old records when migrating, BMA warns
GP representatives have issued advice to practices considering moving to central servers, including guidance about migration of patient lists. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee ‘strongly recommends’ that practices arrange for a recent backup tape to be loaded onto the central server they are considering switching to before committing to the system change so […]
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TPP reaches 200 deployments under Accenture
A significant milestone has been reached in the deployment of National Programme for IT systems to GP practices in the North-east and Eastern clusters. Local service provider Accenture and systems supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) announced this week that they had completed its two hundredth deployment of SystmOne GP. There are now 430 GPs live using […]
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TPP commits to more user communication channels
Primary and community care systems supplier, TPP, met over 150 of its customers in its first series of user meetings recently. TPP, whose SystmOne is used in general practice, child health, community and prison health services, has followed up with a commitment to introduce more channels of communication, including regular newsletters and further user meetings […]
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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New GP choice proposals outlined
NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If adopted, the approach could potentially enable practices to buy systems either directly from suppliers or from their local service providers and still have them funded by the national programme. The proposals now being consulted on […]
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Meet the suppliers: TPP
In the first article of a series, EHI Primary Care travels to Leeds to spend a day with TPP, the alternative primary care supplier for the North-east and Eastern cluster.
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