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London and south east NHS trusts want replacement for NPfIT e-record system to enable data sharing and mobile working NHS trusts in London and the south east of England are planning to spend up to £300m on a replacement clinical and administrative information system. The system is intended to enable information sharing, along with flexible and mobile working. Peter Gooch, associate director of ICT at Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust and chair of the group of trusts, called the 2015 Clinical Information System Consortium, said the decision to advertise for a new system follows consultations...

Department of Health to create content and advisory board to oversee development of electronic emergency care summary The Department of Health is setting up a new organisation to oversee the scope of the clinical content in the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR). It will be known as the summary care record content and advisory board and is intended to consider proposals by the SCR programme board to change the scope of the SCR. "At the first meeting it is expected the board will agree its precise terms of reference and the detailed process it will follow to arrive at its decisions," a spokeswoman...

Technology rolled out to clinicians in cardiology department Great Ormond Street Hospital has deployed iPads and and iMacs to cardiology staff to instantly access 3D images of patients' hearts while planning for surgery, or in theatre. The implementation of the devices is part of an 'Apple architecture project' taking place at the trust, which has seen around 350 Apple devices introduced on the network. The new architecture is able to integrate with the mobile devices the foundation trust uses. Great Ormond Street Hospital is working with Future Labs Group on the architecture project...

LAS's response to life threatening calls drops as new call handling system is introduced The London Ambulance Service's performance on life threatening calls has fallen following the implementation of a new computer-aided dispatch system. According to new figures released by the Department of Health , the trust responded to only 71.9% of category A (immediately life threatening calls) within eight minutes during April, against a government target of 75%. Figures for March of this year show that the trust performed better than April, and managed to respond to 74.5% of life threatening calls...

Pilot involving NHS Direct and NHS Choices due to report in September The Department of Health is trialling an NHS 111 online service as part of a plan to provide a service to complement locally-driven telephone services. A report on the progres of the pilot, which has been running for a couple of weeks, is due in September, those close to the project say. A cross-disciplinary team of representatives from across the NHS, including NHS Direct, the Department of Health and NHS Choices are working on the local pilot to look at the options for delivering the NHS 111 service through digital channels...

Lancashire and Cumbria NHS trusts believe that having a managed telestroke is 'invaluable'. Lancashire and Cumbria cardiac and stroke network expects about 40 stroke victims each year to recover without a significant disability because of fast administration of clot-busting drugs, enabled by the telestroke service set up by local NHS trusts. Telestroke went live in July of last year after two to three years of preparation. It relies on a Virgin Media Business community of interest network, based on a £9m contract set up in May 2010 with seven healthcare trusts across Lancashire. The network...

NHS informatics leaders believe US-style health sector financial incentives could drive new NHS information strategy The NHS information strategy will be driven by financial incentives, possibly similar to those introduced by US President Obama, Dr Paul Altmann, chief clinical information officer at Oxford university hospitals NHS trust, told Guardian Government Computing (GGC) at the Westminster Health Forum. "In America one of the things that Obama has done very well is to develop this concept of meaningful use," he said. "So all healthcare organisations are told that they need...