South Acute Programme approved

The outline business case for the South Acute Programme has been approved by HM Treasury and the first procurement is
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Hunt talks up NHS IT projects in US

The government’s plan to sequence 100,000 human genomes and link these to electronic health records will be “as significant as
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Royal Berks connects with GPs

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is sending discharge letters to GPs across eight clinical commissioning groups using PCTI’s Electronic Document
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Hunt sells UK as global health tech hub

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is selling the UK as a “global hub of health technology” at the Health Datapalooza conference
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Care.data implemented this month

The first GP data extractions for the care.data programme start this month.
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Clouds ahead for Locala

Locala Community Partnerships has signed with Dell for a hybrid cloud service to move forward with its mobile working project.
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Trusts share info with Rio2Rio

Community and mental health trusts in London and the South can share patient information using a new feature from BT
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Merseyside creates clinical IT ops group

Informatics Merseyside has set up an operational group of clinical IT leads to drive the informatics agenda across the Merseyside
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Royal Berks writes £18m off EPR

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has axed £18m from the value of its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.
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GPSoC tender worth £1.2 billion

The Department of Health has tendered for a new GP Systems of Choice framework worth up to £1.2 billion over
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