Archived South Eastern News: 2004 - 2010
June-July 2010
NHS
has much to do on data security
NHS
Direct pilots home working
May - June
Nurses
say technology can cut lost time
April - May 2010
Sussex
Partnership may move to Lorenzo
March - April 2010
Portsmouth
signs deal for Patientxt
Portsmouth
signs up for digi-pens
Greenfield
four becomes three
February - March 2010
Southern
procurements on track
Second
southern RiO site goes live
Kent
and Medway virtualises desktops
December 2009October 09
iSoft
to go direct to South with Lorenzo
Windows
7 at South East Coast Ambulance Service
September 09
Are
you feeling healthii?
DHs
lead on acute choice leaves
August 09
NHS
IOW cuts costs with ScriptSwitch
Dartford
uses Itanium as bridge to EPR
Social
Enterprise in Sussex
July 09
Epsom
and St Helier rejects Cerner
Five
NHS trusts receive warning over lost patient data
June 09
BTs
Southern LSP deal cost £546m
Connelly:
South benefits from no LSP
Royal
Berkshire selects UPMC for Cerner
May 09
Education
in health informatics seminar Friday 19 June 2009, UWE, Bristol
Live
Webinar Thu 28th May 2009Making Time to Care
At
least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
Four
BT Cerner deployments for South
Worthing
and Southlands deploys BigHand
Hampshire
uses mobile technology to lead change
April 09
BT
takes over Cerner sites in the south
Winchester
deploys new e-prescribing system
Oxford
chooses Imprivata OneSign
March 2009
Health
coaches get access to patient records - NHS West Kent is launching
the CareCall service with Bupa Health Dialog
CfH
terminates Fujitsu helpdesk contract
Unique
Post to boost Croydon's health plans
Worthing
decides to switch off Cerner
February 2009
Demonstrators
make slow progress
Free Seminar in London March 4th Enhancing
end-user adoption of IM&T within the NHS
January 2009
Millennium
delays cost Kingston £500,000
Local
PCTs to be Summary Care Record 'Fast Followers'
December 2008
'Live
Eight' with Fujitsu until mid-2009
November 2008
New
RCP Medical Record Keeping Standards web site
October 2008
SCR
consent model changes
Virtualisation
at Epsom and St Helier
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
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/
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