Archived London News: 2004 - 2011

Nov - Dec 2011
myhealthlondon GP compare site launched

King's first hospital Docman customer

London NHS 111 pilots suspended

Moorfields builds open source record

London MH trust completes Ascribe move

Sept - Oct 2011
LAS gives up on new software until 2012

ICO acts on NHS info governance

EHI Awards 2011: the winners

August 2011

Chertsey hospital sends e-docs to GPs

London Cerner costs now put at £31m

July 2011
NHS Modernisation: Special Issue June 2011

Moorfields looks to digital with BigHand

Kevin Jarrold to lead IT at Imperial

Trust has its head in the e-health cloud

Camden and Islington to upgrade RiO

Kingston creates clinical hub

Portal supports integrated care pilot

Dozen areas adopt GP dashboard

Queen Mary researchers develop DigiScope

May - June 2011

London MH Trust outsources IT to HP

Homerton improves GP test access

Nervecentre helps Nottingham at night

South London lines up for Cerner

PCTI completes Croydon roll-out

April - May 2011

UCLH investigates major IT failure

March - April 2011
Southwark transfers docs with PCTI

Nurses develop tool to ensure safe staffing levels

King's builds analysis on Dynistics

Westminster shares info with Vision 360

Lexacom wins 4,000 GP practice deal

December 2010
Great Ormond Street trials iPads

London trust sees e-prescribing gains

Imperial completes trust-wide IMS PAS

October 2010

West Middlesex discharges in RealTime

Cambridge starts hunt for a new EPR

Maltese company wins NHS data contract

Looking Local

London group wins John Perry prize

September

St George’s suffers Cerner teething pain

Ealing improves discharge with SRC

London completes move to RiO 5.4

August

Royal Marsden signs for Carestream RIS

London looks for new deal with Microsoft

O2 Health launches Wii fit-style trials

King's makes progress on e-prescribing

Hillingdon gets SRC discharge summaries

Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands

Royal Free builds Cerner checklists

June-July 2010

London trust tags psychiatric patients

Haringey rolls out EDMS from 6pm

May - June
EPR cuts Middlesex GUM treatment times

NHS London reconfiguration to be axed

Hammersmith and Fulham improves website

Berkshire to save £150k with NHSmail

April - May 2010
Great Ormond Street order comms deal

Hillingdon implements Imprivata OneSign

GOSH entertains children with MEDIVista

North London trusts outsource IT to 2e2

London IT Programme slashed

March - April 2010

Waltham Forest links RiO and C&B

February - March 2010
Hitachi completes London portal

Royal Marsden awards £1.2m LIMS contract

Conficker worm shuts down trust network

London SCR roll out complete in a year

100 polyclinics to shake-up London

December
QMH goes it alone with iSoft

Fordway infrastructure for London PCT

Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA

NHS IT upgrade goes live in London

October
RiO upgrades restart in London

Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA

New Cardiology Clinic at The Heart of Hounslow

Conference: London Health 09

September
St George’s wants Cerner for Xmas

November go-live for first London SCR

Capita wins £3.3m outsourcing deal

August
London PCTs pilot polysystem IT

London carnival on hold for RiO

Health Information for Children workshop London 9th September

July 09
New stroke and trauma centres to 'radically improve' care for Londoners

King's picks McKesson whiteboard system

Barts still stuck on 18-week waits

Adastra wins London polyclinic contract

Five NHS trusts receive warning over lost patient data

June 09
London runs reverse auctions for care

Patient told no electronic record, no care

Royal Berkshire selects UPMC for Cerner

London RiO upgrades remain on hold

Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans

Royal Free Hospital digitizes radiology reporting

May 09
Live Webinar Thu 28th May 2009“Making Time to Care”

RiO upgrades suspended in London

NHS London closes provider agency

Alan Johnson approves south east London NHS reconfiguration

The Heart of Hounslow opens as a polyclinic

April 09
NHS Camden rapped by ICO

Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign

King’s College to install 50 self-service kiosks

March 2009
Interesting video about how NHS Hounslow access real time patient information

Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn

NHS Brent gets PBC support

Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign

Unique Post to boost Croydon's health plans

London Borough of Islington retenders part of its home care service

Royal Free boss says CRS problems cost £10m

UCLH signs £10m communications contract

February 2009
Free Seminar in London March 4th Enhancing end-user adoption of IM&T within the NHS

HPC UPdate: 8 listening events to be held in the Greater London area during March - sign-up online

Cerner gets green light in London

DH and London move on shared services

NHSmail on track for London

Brent PCT rapped over data loss

Demonstrators make slow progress

January 2009
Millennium delays cost Kingston £500,000

Local PCTs to be Summary Care Record 'Fast Followers'

Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’

A new system for improving access to psychological therapies has gone live across Kingston Primary Care Trust

NHS Hounslow: 21st century communications for a healthier community

Newham PCT launches New Year stop smoking roadshow

December 2008
Child immunisation software 'creating risks'

Computer virus takes down Barts and the London plus Barts takes a week to recover from Mytob virus

Rescue plan for Royal Free and Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk

Public Health conference (London, February 12th) to be joint hosted

November 2008
Computer virus takes down Barts and the London

Royal Free says £7.2m deficit due to Cerner

Talks over BT role in London primary care systems

New RCP Medical Record Keeping Standards web site

October 2008
London to get more and better skilled health workers

SCR consent model changes

London payroll and Tees patient records lost

Barts still struggling with Cerner CRS

September 2008
See the new eHealth Nurses Network Survey Feature! This is a new addition (this month we're looking at e-records) - we will be feeding back results on these pages - plus we'd like to hear what you think are the key eHealth elements in need of investigation from your viewpoint. Please take part and help us trial this feature

St Mary’s further delays go live of Cerner CRS

Pressure group warns on nurse shortage

CRS problems cost Barts and the London £3m

Royal Marsden implements secure remote access

August 2008
St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS

Royal Free flags training issues and Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’

London trusts join forces in research venture

HPC Education Presentation - London (October) 19/10/2007 - 13:30. The Kings Fund, Cavendish Square, London

July 2008
'Swindells' Health informatics review is published and NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.

Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System.

Darzi releases Final Report: High quality care for all

June 2008
Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London

May 2008
Our NHS, Our Future (England) LATEST:Video of highlights ; Leading Local Change published 8th May - London SHA has published Healthcare for London which has been through consultation. Read the March e-News

Nurse Prescriber? Association for Nurse Prescribing Conference in London in July

Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system

April 2008
13th May London: How can technology transform the patients' experience of the NHS?

This month's NMC/Regulatory Body Update;The new Code is available now to read and download

Moorfields develop glaucoma detection software

Centre for robotic surgery opened in London

Barts and The London switches on Millennium

March 2008
NMC Education Road Show Friday 18 April and 13th May - London

February 2008
Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing

January 2008
There'scurrently a very important opportunity to have your say on the Lord Darzi review Our NHS, Our Future - open until 15th February - please take part NOW!

Conference 21st Jan in London: Creating an Effective Business Plan for Your Social Enterprise

December 2007
New online collaboration tool for NHS staff

Primary Care toolkit from the London Network for Nurses and Midwives

November 2007
Whittington pilots McKesson clinician portal

Telemed 07 Supporting Self Care November 26th - 27th London

Queen Mary's Sidcup goes live with Cerner

Work as a School Nurse or with Children? 11 - 17 year olds willing to give their opinion about electronic health records sought by RCN for new survey

October 2007
London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has just become the first NHS establishment in the country to treat patients online.

Telemed 07 Supporting Self Care November 26th - 27th London

Work in Primary Care? RCN Study Day in London Oct 27th

Six London trusts get RiO for mental health

September 2007
Missed Appointments cut by 27% across Sixteen Surgeries

Delays in emergency service radios 'cause for concern'

August 2007
London's healthcare to change see Framework for Action

Barnet and Chase Farm switch on Cerner

St Mary’s Hospital pioneers world’s first robotic arm to navigate heart for common cardiac procedure

New Health Inequalities Strategy for London

New sites chosen for computerised CBT

iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

July 2007
Work with children? Fujitsu picks McKesson for Child Health

BT Health MD: we need some acutes under our belt

Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR

CFH - Whats happening in your area

First EPS release two trusts announced

North London trusts link sites with fast network

UCL Blends Expertise to Re-Launch MSc Health Informatics

June 2007
FREE SEMINAR central London: 20th June 6.30 - 9pm: Computers in Care - The Nurses' Role

FREE EVENT 3rd July Oxford: Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass - Ten Ways to Succeed in Major Health Informatics Projects

Homerton switches to speech recognition in radiology

Wycombe's health moves up the agenda

May 2007
Free Evening Meeting: Computers in Care - The Nurses' Role June 20th 6pm - 9pm Don't miss it!

Plans to create a centre of world-leading healthcare in west London are today (1 May) available for public consultation

Award for Oxford's electronic blood tracking

BT 'de-couples' London Cerner development from South

BT to create London PACS archive by September

April 2007
PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South

Free CFH Event The Benefits of the Electronic Single Assessment Process 20 April 2007 from 9.30 - 13.00 at BT Tower

Rio rolls out in West London trust

Moorfields Rolls Out PAS Upgrade

New wave of community hospitals and services

See whats happening in Connecting for Health in your area

ISeries of Study days at the Royal Marsden - 'Bridging the gap: from care to computer' - How Nursing Diagnosis can help you and your teams through the implementation of the Electronic Patient Record - Not to be missed!

Free workshops - Turn analysis into action. Help make data make a difference.

March 2007
Islington PCT uses texts for stop smoking campaign

The Centre for Health Informatics invites you to A Critical Lecture and Discussion Rebuilding Trust and Confidence in the NHS - Talking to the public - hard choices in the NHS on Wednesday 21st March 2007

February 2007
NMC Update! NEW Draft NMC Code out for Consultation Be SURE and have your say!

Day Of Action 3 March 2007 Rally at Friends Meeting House, Euston between 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm

Antony Sumara Appointed as NHS London Turnaround Director

January 2007
Liquidlogic to provide new system for Slough

NMC Update January 2007: The NMC's Chief Executive, Sarah Thewlis, will be speaking about the future direction of nursing at the New Connaught Rooms in London on Tuesday 23 January 2007; Current on-line poll: Should student nurses and midwives be regulated? - add your vote!

December 2006

Patients to Receive GP Appointment Reminders by SMS and 130,000 Ealing patients to receive health information by mobile phone

Interested in e-records and confidentiality? See the Caldicott Guardian Manual The BMA have issued information and guidance for doctors and GPs threaten to block national patient database and Hackers make us scared to e-file, say GPs . The artricle Local sealed envelopes 'probably safer' contains a link toan interesting document on Sealed Envelopes Also see new Childrens Databases Report

November 2006

BT completes switch to Cerner

LSPs fail 'acid test' on PAS deployments

Compulsory cleaning keyboard battles MRSA

Hounslow PCT launches remote access

Work in Primary Care and fancy a FREE Workshop in Watford on October 19th or in Bloomsbury on 15th November?

Interested in Competences? Skills for Health are holding an event in London on November 7th - for more information email richard.williams@skillsforhealth.org.uk

FREE CFH Event in London on 14th November: Managing Change through Training

Work in education? Read about the NHS-HE Forum

CRDB are holding their FREE annual conference Your Care, Your Record on 23rd November in London.

London Cluster - The NHS Care Records Service - How can London nurses and midwives be involved? FREE morning Workshop

CSC takes charge of seven 'out of cluster' trusts

Fingerprint recognition trialled in Lewisham PCT

National Education, Training and Development (ETD) Special Interest Group

Interview: Maeve Smith, Head of Principal Programmes and Platforms, Service Implementation

UKChip Presidents Report 2006

Huge Cash Boost For Community Hospitals

Troubled child health system to be replaced

Ealing PCT adopts web-based reporting tool for clinical governance

London supplier switch looks closer

e-Learning Version of the Step Guide to Workforce Planning available free

Work in Primary Care? See GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) - June 2006 update and First meeting of GP Pan User Group /GP Pan User Group debates data migration ALSO are you interested in developing the HCA role in your surgery? See the HCA toolkit plus interesting European Conference

Are you a nurse or a midwife? Changes to the PREP standard from July 1st

Take part in the current RCN Survey - Your e-health depends on IT

'Open wide...' Why big business is being invited to run GP surgeries

Interested in collaborative e-learning? Why not attend this Symposium: Sustaining Communities, Supporting Processes on 22-23 June at the The Møller Centre, University of Cambridge

Free Health Informatics MasterClass July 13th London

Cerner predicted to replace GE in London

Enfield PCT back to paper after computer failure

CEO appointments made to new SHA's - read about who's who in your new SHA

Send your comments to The Information Centre which is responsible for reducing bureaucracy through effective coordination of collections, elimination of duplication, and delivering efficient and effective information sources to enable service delivery improvements for service users regardless of the point of delivery

Keep up to date with CFH nurse matters on the Connecting with Nurses web page.

'Unworkable' NCRS user policy to be replaced

City and Hackney PCT chooses iPlato

Interested in what information should be collected in order to demonstrate cross agency health gain? See this latest DoH Consultation The deadline for responses is Monday May 5th.

Sir Nigel Crisp steps down from DH

NHS Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass 11th April 2006 Venue: Regents College, Regents Park, London Time: 12.30pm – 4.30pm

Interested in studying informatics in London? Visit the Health Informatics Open Evening - Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education University College London Wednesday 10th May 2006 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Interested in collaborative e-learning? Why not attend this Symposium: Sustaining Communities, Supporting Processes on 22-23 June at the The Møller Centre, University of Cambridge

Work with children? See the Report 'Passing it on' - the Children's Rights Director's report on what children think about people who work with them passing on confidential information to each other.

Free on 1 March 2006 at 6pm? See Healthcare Technologies Symposium "Healthcare on the Record" sponsored by: Centre for Health Informatics/City Livery Companies and UK Health Informatics Society Venue: City University, London

Live in central London? Opportunity to hear a talk by Barbara Stuttle at a meeting of the British Computer Society - Nursing Specialist Group on Wed March 1st 2006 18.00 - 20.00

Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery and see Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs
and GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent

Interested in issues around care records, confidentiality, access etc for adults and children? See GPC says summary care record must be 'opt-in' and see Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs and GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent and Personal Data for Public good

Dr Foster, a commercial provider of healthcare information, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have formed a new public-private partnership with the aim of improving public access to information.

A computer test that nurses and all AHPs should have access to?

EPS pilot to restart after early glitch

Hounslow PCT has agreed to fund replacement servers for practices in its area just days before an arbitration case was due to be heard over its refusal to do so.

The need for clinical standardisation in healthcare

Creating Tomorrow Whilst Managing Today: Transitional Arrangements In The NHS and Department of Health

A new version of predictive risk software to help identify patients most at risk of emergency hospital admissions has been released

The National Workforce Group has produced a best practice strategic framework to promote the adoption and deployment of e-learning within the NHS

Sept 05: Live in London? Experience a live end-to-end patient journey using the NPfiT software designed for you. To follow the patient’s care journey, you walk through the various care settings aided by a tour guide while large screens display the tools in use. Book on line

New CfH RID for London

May 05: David Kwo resigns as London RID

May 05: Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust in London has deployed a new system to eliminate spam across the organization's 5,500 email users.

January 2005: BT signs £108 million deal with Perot for London

18th August 2004 : Cancer in Men Conference
Dorchester, 23rd September 2004 See
More Information

2nd July 2004 : NPfiT launches WEB SITE
See: http://www.npfit.nhs.uk/

2nd July 2004 : eHealth Insider Reports:
The National Programme for IT has unveiled a new website, featuring a host of detailed information about the programme and its implementation - but the "Your Say" section, where a public discussion forum had been planned, was removed shortly after it appeared. See
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=785

2nd July 2004 : NPfiT More Choice & Control over Your Healthcare:
is at the very heart of the Government's vision for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. It will mean major changes for the NHS and bring benefits both to you and to those who work in the NHS. This leaflet describes the changes and the benefits that computers and information technology will create through the work of the National Programme for IT. See:
http://www.npfit.nhs.uk/docs/patient_leaflet_final.pdf

2nd July 2004 : Choose and Book is a national service
that will, for the first time, combine electronic booking and a choice of time, date and place for first outpatient appointment. By the end of 2005 it will be available to all patients in England requiring elective care (over 10 million each year). Seehttp://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/default.asp

10th June 2004 : Prepare yourself and your clients for the MyHealthSpace access method of the future!
HealthSpace is a secure place on the internet where you can store all your personal health information. (NB HealthSpace is an online service provided by the NHS in England. It is provided for the sole use of people living in England. It is for use by persons over the age of 18 only). See
https://www.healthspace.nhs.uk/

10th June 2004 : National Programme for IT (England) web-page:
See latest Update on NPfit at
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/InformationTechnology/l

15th April 2004 : Tower Hamlets "Sex-Text" Example of Good Practice
Tower Hamlets PCT has developed a text messaging service to respond to the need to communicate directly with young people. See:
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk

1st April 2004 : NMC: Understanding the Code Seminars:
regularly held in your Region - Keep checking what's going on and note the dates in your diary! See
http://www.nmc-uk.org/nmc/main/events/$professionalAdviceSeminars

31st March 2004: Are you looking for help with finding a home in London?
See Keyworker site at:
http://www.keyworkerliving.co.uk/schemes/

30th March 2004 : The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) who's won what in our area??
See http://www.top-consultant.com/uk/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=4335

NEW! Teenage Health Information web site built by South West London & St Georges Mental Health trust in partnership with Richmond and Kingston Drug & alcohol Action Teams in Surrey. Advice also for parents. Visit
http://www.sorted4.info/


Do you live and work in the Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark area?
If you do - let us know - there will be an eHealth Nurses Network Regional meeting in your area very soon! Watch this page for details

Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed

Interested in Genetics? You can help with a project aiming to create a web based education resource for the nursing professions
Information [word]
Poster [pdf]

Live in London? Experience a live end-to-end patient journey using the NPfiT software designed for you. To follow the patient’s care journey, you walk through the various care settings aided by a tour guide while large screens display the tools in use. Book on line

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