Bradford goes live with iPM in just six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully deployed the iSoft iPM system in just six months, after striking a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation and Connecting for Health last October. The trust becomes the first hospital in the North East to go live with a CSC provided iSoft iPM PAS system. CSC took over […]
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Additional suppliers catalogue tender released
Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for an ‘Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) Framework Agreement’ is open to a maximum of 500 suppliers, for a period of up to four years. […]
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Maternity delivery delays
Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers’ contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been painfully slow resulting in some trusts opting for alternative systems, Joe Fernandez investigates.
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NPfIT’s Evolution maternity dropped by Royal Shrewsbury
The NHS trust that was meant to be the pilot site for the National Programme for IT version of iSoft’s Evolution Maternity Information System, has given up waiting for its delayed NPfIT system and implemented an alternative system bought off the shelf. Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire has been waiting for almost two years […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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NAO criticises £12m Dr Foster Intelligence deal
The National Audit Office has criticised the Information Centre for striking a £12m deal without going out to tender to create Dr Foster Intelligence – a joint venture designed to provide healthcare information. The NAO said: “The Department of Health and the Information Centre (IC) could not demonstrate to the National Audit Office’s satisfaction that they had achieved […]
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Nuffield Hospitals invest in new Dell hardware
Nuffield Hospitals group has replaced its entire desktop infrastructure with a new set of 3,500 new desktop PCs provided by Dell. The private hospital group, which has 40 hospitals in England and Scotland, made the investment after deciding its existing infrastructure had reached end-of-life and required replacement. Nuffield’s general manager for IT service management, Iain […]
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Maltese tender suspended due to corruption allegation
A €30m tender for an integrated health information system at Malta’s new Mater Dei Hospital has been suspended following an allegation that a ministry for IT (MITTS) official passed on commercially confidential award information to one of the two consortia competing for the contract. A statement from the MITTS department released on Tuesday confirmed that […]
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Patients to rate care received using new NHS website
The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs and hospitals. Patients will be able to post detailed reviews of their experiences in their GP surgery or of their hospital appointments, in a similar style to restaurant reviews. The aim of the website is […]
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NPfIT Service Desk now running in all clusters
Fujitsu have implemented the new NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) service desk in all of the National Programme for IT clusters. The service desk will provide a helpline, e-mail and web logging facility for technical questions and queries about National Programme for IT systems and services. Operated by Fujitsu Services Limited, the NHS CfH […]
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