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Rather than waiting, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has bypassed NPfIT’s framework to choose its own supplier for the refresh of its patient administration system (PAS).

In a 5 year funding deal the trust will take on iSoft’s i.Patient Manager PAS as well as refreshing the existing installation of iSoft’s i.Clinical Manager.

Since Fujitsu pulled out last year, BT has taken over responsibility for some trusts in the southern cluster but others have yet to be allocated a new supplier.

Source: Silicon.com

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Connecting for Health has confirmed it is signing new deals with CSC and BT, the only two remaining suppliers on the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in a move to keep the remaining suppliers on the programme.

Source: Computerworld

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BT shares fell four per cent on reports of a huge impending write down on the value of contracts at its Global Services arm and a potential further 10,000 job cuts.

The write-down is thought to relate to 15 of BT’s 17 biggest contracts, including millions on its work with the troubled £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

BT operates the London region of NPfIT.

Source: Computing

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According to Computer Weekly health officials are considering a new delivery model for the NPfIT in London which would increase the amounts spent on installations of the BT Cerner Millennium system by over 200%.

The Department of Health cannot allow BT to quit, as the NPfIT would then have lost three of its four local service providers (Accenture and Fujitsu have already pulled out) and would be perceived worldwide as an unmitigated failure. BT losses currently run into hundreds of millions of pounds under the NPfIT programme.

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BT has been asked to provide IT for eight southern NHS trusts, which were previously serviced by Fujitsu, under the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT.

Source: Computerworld

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According to Computerworld the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be deploying new systems to NHS trusts “as a matter of routine,” within 12 months, quoting Martin Bellamy, head of NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) and director of programme and systems delivery at the Department of Health.

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According to Computing the government is to re-consider the case for publishing project gateway reviews of the £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

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Computer Weekly reports that an internal NHS document states that problems arising from the implementation of the Care Records Service at the A&E department of the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, could continue indefinitely.

According to the report “Lessons Learnt from the Royal Free Hospital Emergency Department” is a detailed assessment of the Care Records Service implementation which refers to multiple problems and highlights the risk that “the present situtation will continue indefinitely”.

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According to Computer Weekly negotiations between NHS Connecting for Health and CSC over revisions to £3bn worth of contracts under the NHS’s National Programme for IT are expected to be concluded in the next two weeks.

The talks over a contract “re-set” had been expected to be concluded by May this year. Talks over a contract re-set with Fujitsu broke down in May 2008 with the result that NHS Connecting for Health terminated the supplier’s contract.

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