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News The priority now is to finish developing and deploying care records systems that will help NHS Trusts to achieve the programme's intended benefits of improved services and better patient care. The NHS and suppliers are working together now to...
[16 May 2008]
News There was resentment among some staff that CfH had forced a tightly managed timetable on the primary care trusts for implementing SCR "despite the immaturity of the technical solutions". The NHS has pledged to halt the further roll out of its...
[14 May 2008]
Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more often work against each other, cynics would...
[30 Apr 2008]
News During the roll-out, practices have received training on GP2GP software, either from the suppliers or - in a small number of Primary Care Trusts - by local training staff. More than a third of doctor's surgeries in England have now adopted an...
[27 Feb 2008]
whitepaper NHS Community Healthcare Trusts are responsible for primary and secondary community care for patients with medical and psychological problems. NHS Trusts are now able to give each mobile worker full access to patient records that are critical to...
[19 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is one of 600 NHS Trusts. The Trust needed a system that provided effective document management as well as effective content management. With more than 35 clinical specialties and more than 40 departments...
[08 Feb 2008]
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[04 Feb 2008]
News The ongoing data loss fiasco in government continued with a raft of new breaches being revealed across government departments and NHS Trusts. Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and...
[30 Jan 2008]
News Last week saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches...
[23 Jan 2008]
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[22 Jan 2008]
News Last week also saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details...
[21 Jan 2008]
News The lapse come in the wake of the loss of hundreds of thousands of patients' records by nine NHS trusts in December. The security of information held by the NHS suffered a further blow after the loss of another 4,000 medical and personal details...
[18 Jan 2008]
News The rollout of the Pacs digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England was also completed in December. Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS' £12.4bn flagship IT programme and the timetable for the...
[15 Jan 2008]
whitepaper One of the largest National Health Service Trusts in the UK, Guy's and St Thomas' comprises two teaching hospitals: 8,000 staff provide emergency and specialist treatment to 750,000 patients a year. Five million people call Guy's and St Thomas...
[10 Jan 2008]
News The NHS says only 0.6 per cent of people approached have so far opted out of the SCR system, despite revelations last year patient information had been lost by nine NHS trusts. Technology will be key to tackling Europe's burgeoning health service...
[09 Jan 2008]
Case Study The Patient Care Messaging (PCM) software, which is made by healthcare application developer iPLATO, is being used by 24 NHS Primary Care Trusts to enable GP surgeries to send automatic and targeted appointment and health reminders to patients by...
[07 Jan 2008]
News The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England as part of the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. More than 473 million images have been stored using the technology, which cuts the...
[27 Dec 2007]
News A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health Authorities in the north of England has outsourced its financials and procurement IT in a contract worth £16.45m over 10 years. Called the North East Patches Shared System Group (NEP), the consortium...
[21 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust was one of the first organisations to connect to N3, the new broadband link delivering key services electronically to NHS Trusts in England. As part of this project, Salisbury needed to replace its existing firewall...
[18 Dec 2007]
News Connecting their individual voice networks to the NHS N3 network could help hospital trusts across the UK cut their phone bills. London trusts are being offered free connections to the N3 Local Gateway Service - allowing them to call each other for...
[06 Dec 2007]
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