Archived South Eastern News: 2004 - 2010

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

Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months

Competition begins to open up in the South

August 2008
BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts but South may split between CSC and BT

Fujitsu exit costs Cerner £89m in lost bookings

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.

Fujitsu may lose southern NHS PACS deal

Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe

BT in talks to take over Cerner trusts in south

Darzi releases Final Report: High quality care for all

June 2008
South East Coast Darzi Review Out

Winchester has four-day Millennium failure and Worthing says Cerner's functionality 'inferior'

Royal Berkshire 'may walk' from NHS IT programme

Fujitsu exit may hinder trusts on 18-week waits and Primary care following Fujitsu

AxSys to provide Salisbury within interim clinicals

Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost

Wiltshire PCT deploys new e-referral system

May 2008
Our NHS, Our Future (England) LATEST:Video of highlights ; Leading Local Change published 8th May; Local Change Plans due for release on: South Central SHA 2nd June, South East Coast SHA on 19th May

Millennium fails again across Southern England

Worthing still has ‘data quality issues’

Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system

April 2008
This month's NMC/Regulatory Body Update;The new Code is available now to read and download

Study reveals savings using blood tracking

Stoke Mandeville switches on Millennium

March 2008
Millennium remains a 'challenge' at Worthing

Games therapy for burns victims

February 2008
Fujitsu integrate JAC pharmacy at Milton Keynes

Southern contract reset deadline up

Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing

January 2008
Unwanted award for scrooge-like hospital

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!

December 2007
Healthcare Commission report on the Clostridium Outbreak in Kent

Work with children? Call for Papers for Conference on the Childrens Act in Kent summer 2008

Southampton City Primary Care Trust (PCT) is deploying a telemedical electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation service to give expert cardiology reporting for patients in clinics

New online collaboration tool for NHS staff

Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson

November 2007
Worthing says PAS teething problems over

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

New scanner will speed diagnosis

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
Stoke Mandeville taps into spinal software

Worthing to switch on Millennium PAS

South edges towards a 'best of breed approach'

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

September 2007
Barnet and Chase Farm switch on Cerner

August 2007
Contract 'reset' underway in the South

Fujitsu says 'full steam ahead' in South

Brighton & Sussex deploys digital dictation

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

First EPS release two trusts announced

CFH- Whats happening in your area?

UCL Blends Expertise to Re-Launch MSc Health InformaticsJune 2007
Trusts feel knock on effects of Millennium delays

Wycombe's health moves up the agenda

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

May 2007
Award for Oxford's electronic blood tracking

Surrey and Sussex go live with Millennium

Dental Helpline Set Up

BT 'de-couples' London Cerner development from South

April 2007
New wave of community hospitals and services

79 Milton Keynes staff say Millennium "not fit for purpose"

PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South

Patients' Vital Signs Analysed By Computer

Are you registered with the HPC? See this Listening Event - Folkestone or Portsmouth go and have your say direct to your Regulatory Body!

Series 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
Gloucestershire Hospitals get new software to deliver patient information faster

See whats happening in Connecting for Health in your area

First intake of Apprenticeships – Sussex HIS

Progressive NHS Trusts sign Community of Interest Network Contracts

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

Day Of Action 3 March 2007 Rallies to be held in Woking and Maidstone, Winchester and Lymington

Midwives rather than consultants will take the lead under a major expansion of Kingston Hospital's maternity department.

January 2007
Oasis helps cut surgery waits in Surrey

Liquidlogic to provide new system for Slough

Rare forms of cancer to be targeted

SELF-management course to help people who live with a chronic illness is being run by Hastings and Rother Primary Care Trust.

East Surrey goes live with new maternity system

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

Cerner Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) - Interesting articles

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

NHS IT project aims for 120 major installs by April

LSPs fail 'acid test' on PAS deployments

Milton Keynes implements WinPath pathology system

Work in education? Read about the NHS-HE Forum

Buckinghamshire goes live with Cerner

If you live in Sussex or Surrey you must know about the Fit for the Future Website

CSC takes charge of seven 'out of cluster' trusts

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

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

UKChip Presidents Report 2006

Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing

Huge Cash Boost For Community Hospitals

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

EMERGENCY services could be centralised on one site in West Herts by next year

Health staff recognised

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

Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients

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

Fujitsu plans next four go-lives in South by August

Free Health Informatics MasterClass July 13th London

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

Implementation schedule slips in South

Successful Electronic Transfer of a Patient’s Medical Record at Second Pilot Site on Isle of Wight

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

Cerner confident of delivery in the South

Live in travel distance of 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

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.

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

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

The need for clinical standardisation in healthcare

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

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

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). See http://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/

5th May 2004 : Worthing NHS Trust goes digital with Ferrania
Worthing and Southlands NHS Trust has chosen Ferrania LifeImaging to implement the latest digital imaging technology, in a move designed to increase efficiency within the trust's hospitals and improve patient care. See Ehealth Insider
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=706

May 5th 2004 : Great Opportunity To Get Involved in Developing Nursing Needs With NPfiT Cluster in Your Area!!
We have received a request for nominations to Southern / London Cluster Joint Process Expert Groups (JPEGs). The priority groups/areas currently are:
- Care management: (PAS, ADT, TCIs, management reporting, etc)
- Order comms and scheduling
- Clinical documentation and correspondence - (includes assessments)
- Mental Health/ CPA
- Older people /SAP
- Childrens Services
- Primary Care
- A&E
- Theatres
- Maternity

If you would like an general overview of the NPfiT see this very useful Southern Cluster Document:
A Brief Vision of the Future with NPfiT for NHS Staff

If your specialty is in any of the above areas and you would like your name to go forward
please let us know

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 the South East?
http://www.keyworkerliving-sep.co.uk/

March 2004 : Live in Hertfordshire?
See: http://www.leavalleyhomes.co.uk/

March 2004 : Live in Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire?
See: http:// www.keyhomes-east.org.uk

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

South awarded to Fujitsu: 26 Jan 2004:
The Fujitsu Alliance has been awarded the final Local Service Provider (LSP) contract for the South of England to deliver the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)in England. The Southern region is the largest in England covering almost one quarter of England's population and a geographical area from Dover to Land's End and the Isle of Wight to Milton Keynes.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=632

The South East Informatics Learning Network supported an Action Learning Set
looking generically at Informatics issues. The group met for just over a year and, at their final meeting, identified a number of common themes related to information management and technology, which they felt impacted the areas in which they where working. Many of their work roles involved reviewing existing and improving future practices in order to bring benefits to both patients and staff.
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=476&d=11&h=24&f=46&dateformat=%25o%20%25B%20%25Y

areyouokay.org.uk: the website of the Brighton & Hove Young Person's Substance Misuse Service;
works to offer a young person and family friendly service, reducing harm caused by alcohol and drug use. Our service is equally accessible to all. We work closely with other agencies to provide the best care possible, aiming to help young people to reach their full potential.
http://www.areyouok.org.uk/site01.cfm?request=a900

Up to date with NPfiT and the IT Strategy in England?
Visit www.doh.gov.uk/ipu/

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/