
Treasury asked for £3-5 bn NHS tech fund
The Treasury is being asked for up to £5.6 billion to support the NHS’ technology ambitions, as part of the spending review process that will conclude later this month.
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The Treasury is being asked for up to £5.6 billion to support the NHS’ technology ambitions, as part of the spending review process that will conclude later this month.
Optician chain Specsavers has selected eClinicalWorks to provide electronic patient records for all its 500 stores in the UK and another 1,200 internationally.
Inpatient mental health wards at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust have gone live with an Emis Health e-prescribing system, supported by the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’.
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is working with Civica on a beta-test of a new system for the electronic prescribing of medicines.
Four NHS hospital trusts that need to replace their nationally procured electronic patient record systems by the end of the month are deemed “high risk” by the board overseeing the programme.
An electronic prescribing system open sourced for the NHS may be introduced at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.