Data General has beaten HBOC, IBM and SMS to a £4.5 million contract to supply the Countess of Chester Hospital with an integrated patient care system. The hospital set up a procurement team of 30 people, which visited hospitals across the UK...
One hospital already using the technology is Raigmore in Inverness, and Mike Lister, head of information management and technology at the hospital, welcomed the rollout. The hospital now has a database which lists all patients' previous test...
There will be upgrades - worth a total of £45m - to NHSnet, meaning every GP will get at least a 256Kbps fixed line connection, while Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities will get 2Mbps pipes by March next year.
Probably one of the most graphic examples today would be the hospital bed manager in the UK or the bed marshal in the US, employed to achieve bed fills in excess of 99 per cent, which they do with great regularity.
In the last 12 months, 11 NHS hospital trusts have reported thefts of diagnostic equipment worth more than £10,000 and the health service is keen to stop this. He added: "The theft of such equipment is deplorable and diverts much needed resources...
Frank Burns, the former chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, claimed that CfH has never engaged clinicians in discussions about whether new systems delivered under the national programme will have the functionality already available.