Archived South Eastern News: 2004 - 2008September 2008 Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months Competition begins to open up in the South August 2008 Fujitsu exit costs Cerner £89m in lost bookings July 2008 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 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 Millennium fails again across Southern England Worthing still has ‘data quality issues’ Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system April 2008 Study reveals savings using blood tracking Stoke Mandeville switches on Millennium March 2008 Games therapy for burns victims February 2008 Southern contract reset deadline up 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! December 2007 Work with children? Call for Papers for Conference on the Childrens Act in Kent summer 2008 New online collaboration tool for NHS staff Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson November 2007 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 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 August 2007 Fujitsu says 'full steam ahead' in South Brighton & Sussex deploys digital dictation July 2007 First EPS release two trusts announced CFH- Whats happening in your area? UCL Blends Expertise to Re-Launch MSc Health InformaticsJune 2007 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 Surrey and Sussex go live with Millennium BT 'de-couples' London Cerner development from South April 2007 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 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 Midwives rather than consultants will take the lead under a major expansion of Kingston Hospital's maternity department. January 2007 Liquidlogic to provide new system for Slough Rare forms of cancer to be targeted 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 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 '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 A computer test that nurses and all AHPs should have access to? EPS pilot to restart after early glitch The need for clinical standardisation in healthcare 18th August 2004 : Cancer in Men Conference 2nd July 2004 : eHealth Insider Reports: 2nd July 2004 : NPfiT More Choice & Control over Your Healthcare: 2nd July 2004 : Choose and Book is a national service 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/ |