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The Electronic patient record : sixth report of session 2006-07 / House of Commons, Health Committee.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Date:
2007
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Credit: The Electronic patient record : sixth report of session 2006-07 / House of Commons, Health Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cluster Local Service Provider —_ | PAS system BT London PAS system supplier Cerner (IDX until July 2006) Southern Fujitsu Cerner (IDX until April 2005) Midlands Midlands Table 2: Hospital PAS suppliers by cluster Source: National Audit Office Progress to date 27. Assessments of NPfIT’s overall progress to date have varied widely. The Department of Health’s evidence submission provided an upbeat assessment of progress: [NPfIT] is already providing essential services to support patient care and the smooth running of the NHS, without which it could not now properly function. Installation of a modern, high speed, secure infrastructure and national network [N3] has been completed ahead of schedule and is daily supporting millions of business transactions in the NHS...Widespread coverage of Community Patient Administration Systems has been achieved where nothing existed before. Over half of hospitals now have digital x rays and scans.?! 28. Richard Granger offered the Committee a range of statistics to demonstrate the scale of progress: We now have 19,000 places connected up, so we have one of the biggest virtual private networks on the planet and people take that for granted. We are now computerising, to deliver prescriptions safely, 200 GP practices a week with the relevant software. We typically move 120,000 prescriptions electronically now on any given day. About every 10 seconds a patient gets a booking completed electronically.” 29. Evidence from suppliers was equally positive about progress. BT, both the supplier of the main national systems and the LSP for London, provided a clear timetable for completion of their contracted elements of the programme: The foundations of the NPfIT system provided by BT are now built, operating and secure. Culturally integrating these systems so they become second nature for NHS 21 Evi Lee 2