CSC says it has delivered seven new systems under its
new NHS contract in the North East and East of
England.
CSC has
deployed the systems in GP practices and healthcare community sites
as part of its contract to deliver the
NHS National Programme for IT project North
East and East of England.
The aim of the project is to deliver an integrated electronic
patient record throughout England. CSC won the contracts from the
government after Accenture pulled out of the project, after delays
and financial losses.
CSC assumed local service provider responsibility for the NPfIT
in these two regions, in addition to the North West and West
Midlands regions, where it has managed the contract for the last
three years.
CSC transferred 400 staff from the Accenture operation and they
continue working from Leeds-based offices to ensure continuity for
NHS clients in the North East and East of England.
CSC did, however, seek to hire around 100 extra systems
architects after winning the contract from Accenture last
autumn.
CSC primary care director Leigh Donoghue said, “It is a
significant achievement to deliver this primary care IT solution to
these seven NHS organisations at such an early stage of the
transfer of the contract to CSC.
“We have been able to show our NHS clients that the pace of
delivery has continued, assuring them that the move to a fully
integrated patient records system will be realised.”
South Yorkshire based Rotherham Primary Care Trust (PCT) was the
first NHS organisation to go live with the SystmOne Community
solution under CSC management.
This was followed by the Kirklees PCT, Huddersfield, that went
live with its Child Health solution. Additionally, five GP
practices have had new systems deployed: one in Essex, one in
Northamptonshire and three in the Yorkshire region.
CSC’s integrated Primary Care Solution gives GP Practices and
PCTs a suite of products that can manage all administration
activities such as patient home visit requests, staff rotas,
pathology & blood results and patient appointments. It offers
compatibility to allow NHS organisations to share administrative
and clinical data in the future.
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