London Programme for IT

Archived news from LPfIT

Latest Benefits Statement
The latest Benefits Statement from the NHS London Programme for IT is now available.
Londoners receive summary care record letters
More than seven million patients registered with GPs in London have received a patient information pack about the summary care record.
Diary of a floorwalker at an acute trust
When an acute trust goes live, floorwalkers support frontline staff to get used to the Cerner Millennium system and feel confident. Helen Avery at NHS London spent time at Kingston hospital and shares her experience.
Contract changes under CCN3
This is a summary of changes made to the contract being delivered by the NHS London Programme for IT and BT.
Open door for Royal Free
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust hit the headlines in 2008 when it went live with the Cerner Millennium electronic patient records system across the hospital and experienced operational issues with the system.
Setting the pace for polyclinics
NHS London continues to support Waltham Forest and Westminster PCTs in progressing their pilots to share information between their Polyclinic services and systems.
Direct booking into RiO at NHS Waltham Forest
NHS Waltham Forest is the first PCT in London to link up its RiO electronic patient records system with Choose & Book to enable appointments to be made directly into community clinics.
Tavistock and Portman climb on board
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is the latest mental health trust to sign up to RiO V5.4 and is making preparations to go live in October 2010.
Voice from the frontline - AHPs in Brent Community Services embrace RiO
NHS Brent has been using RiO for X years. Senior Physiotherapist at Brent, Vicki Osah, is a member of London's largest multi-disciplinary team.
Reaping the benefits of the Electronic Prescription Service
London PCTs are gearing up for the roll out of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Release 2 later this year with Bexley Care Trust and NHS Croydon being able to go live with the system. This will follow NHS Southwark's initial implementation of the system that is currently being planned.
Truth behind the headlines - Summary Care Records
There have been calls for the roll-out of Summary Care Records to be halted in London and across England . Here we set the record straight.
TPP tops 100 prisons
Belmarsh prison in London is the 100th HM Prison in England to go live with TPP SystmOne, the chosen supplier for electronic patient record systems in prisons.
Spring events and offers
The NHS London annual clinical conference will take place on Tuesday 14 September 2010.
Films highlight benefits of electronic patient records
NHS London has produced four short films to bring to life how electronic patient records provide better, safer care for patients wherever and whenever they need it.
Summary care records launched in London
Summary Care Records containing key medical information which will be accessible wherever patients need treatment are being rolled out across London. The scheme is taking off across England over the next year as part of a national roll-out.
Win an iPod Shuffle!
Next Generation has teamed up with BT, which is upgrading NHS IT systems across the capital, to offer one lucky winner a silver iPod shuffle, worth £59.
Kingston is the fifth London trust to take Cerner
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust was the fifth London acute trust to take Cerner Millennium when the system went live on 30 November.
Sea change in London
‘Flexible', ‘agile' and ‘focused' are words not often associated with the national programme for IT. However this is how Dr Shivam Natarajan, clinical lead for the programme at Barts and The London, one of London's largest teaching hospitals, describes a recent initiative to tailor the electronic patient record system, Cerner Millennium, to the hospital's needs.
Waltham Forest and Westminster polyclinics explore new IT
Two London primary care trusts are taking part in an innovative pilot to explore the secure sharing of patient information across their polyclinic services.
Argos and the Royal Mail support healthcare in London
NHS Westminster teamed up with Argos and the Royal Mail to find the best way of tracking patients on their journey through polyclinics, from initial screening to discharge.
Faster decisions help patient care
Mental health patients are benefitting from a new process that is helping to make improvements in clinical care. Members of the mental health RiO user group (RUG) are now able to view and vote on requests for change to the RiO electronic patient records system through a secure website.
Plans to improve the Core Assessment
London's mental health trusts using RiO have teamed up with the NHS London Programme for IT to review the RiO Core Assessment ina bid to provide faster and safer patient care.
Gold stars for Whipps Cross
Hospital appointments are getting faster and easier to make at doctors' surgeries across the capital with an increasing number of all new outpatient appointments now booked through Choose and Book. Recent evidence suggests that using Choose and Book is reducing referral response times from 25 to 5 days, making a key contribution to achieving 18 weeks targets for treatment.
Truth behind the headlines
The community and mental health IT solution, RiO, has been in the headlines recently. Here we set the record straight and give you the low-down on what really happened.
The Big Question
A conversation with the award-winning Waltham Forest RiO team
Winter events and offers
Great events and offers taking place in winter 2010
Move to new child health system underway
PCTs in North London have begun the move from an interim child health computer system to a permanent one which is connected to the Spine - the secure database of key information about a patient's health and care, which forms the core of the NHS Care Records Service.
May 28, 2009
BT takes on new work in the South
BT recently extended its role providing services to the National Programme for IT to the South of England in an extension of its existing contract to deliver new IT systems to the NHS in London.
May 28, 2009
Clinicians' Conference
Book now for Improving Care in the Capital, LPfIT's annual Clinicians' Conference, taking place at the Law Society on Thursday 2 July. This is an opportunity for all London clinicians to discuss how clinical information systems can support you in delivering more efficient patient care.
May 28, 2009
Your opportunity to attend a masterclass
We all have a great deal of knowledge in our specialist fields. Knowledge that isn't necessarily written down anywhere but stored safely in our head.
May 28, 2009
Map of Medicine improves patient care
Eight local healthcare communities across London are utilising the Map of Medicine to work across organisational boundaries, ensuring that patients remain at the centre of all decision making on care design and delivery.
May 28, 2009
Meet Mike Jones
Mike Jones, who has worked at LPfIT for five years, has been appointed to NHS Connecting for Health's clinical engagement team, bringing with him a wealth of mental health expertise.
June 1, 2009
Way forward for the National Programme for IT
The Department of Health's Director General for Informatics, Christine Connelly, has carried out a review to outline the way forward for the National Programme for IT.
Exciting health and social care development
The Department of Health has announced that Westminster and Camden care communities have been successful with their bids to become demonstrator sites for the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for adults.
February 9, 2009
More hospitals embrace electronic patient records
The NHS in London has renewed its commitment to continue to implement Cerner Millennium within acute trusts as part of the rollout across the capital of electronic care records to deliver improved patient care.
February 9, 2009
What are the benefits of the latest version of RiO?
Five London trusts are now live with the RiO 5.1 version of the electronic patient record system – Kingston PCT, Southwark PCT, Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust, Waltham Forest PCT and Islington PCT.
February 9, 2009
Kingston PCT strives forward with RiO
Kingston was the first primary care trust in London to be up and running with the RiO 5.0 electronic patient record system, and has now upgraded to version 5.1.
February 9, 2009
Top tips for going live
Camden and Islington Foundation Trust is the seventh mental health trust to go live with the RiO electronic patient record system. This means that 70% of London mental health trusts are now using RiO.
February 9, 2009
Electronic patient records - why front line staff are important
Introducing a new IT system in a hospital can be stressful, particularly for staff working on the front line. One of the biggest challenges is keeping the hospital running at it's usual pace whilst getting to grips with a new system, particularly in busy clinics.
February 9, 2009
Sign up to share resources
The NHS London Programme for IT has recently developed a secure, information sharing area of the LPfIT website.
February 9, 2009
Meet… Charmaine Kwame, Knowledge Manager
The NHS is brimming with expertise on delivering electronic patient records. Charmaine Kwame, LPfIT's new Knowledge Manager, is working with London trusts to bring all this knowledge, expertise, experience and lessons learned together so it can be shared with everyone. Next Generation meets Charmaine to find out how the Transformation team shares this information and how it can help to achieve better outcomes and meet trusts' objectives.
February 9, 2009
Minister of State for Health visits Oxleas
Minister of State for Health, Ben Bradshaw MP, discovered at first hand the benefits that electronic patient records are bringing to patients in south east London when he visited Orpington Community Mental Health Centre at the end of October.
November 7, 2008
Step by step - how the acute system works
Over 60 senior London trust colleagues got the chance to see at first hand of the third phase of the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system for acute trusts at the BT centre this month.
November 7, 2008
New generation given insight into NHS IT
In a bid to inspire a new generation to consider an IT career within the NHS, NHS London Programme for IT (LPfIT) opened it doors to 20 young people from Phoenix College, a local comprehensive school specialising in technology.
November 7, 2008
LPfIT launches new website
The new LPfIT website went live during September. We are now part of NHS London's website and you can find us under www.london.nhs.uk/LPfIT. The website has information for the public, wider NHS staff and a secure area for attendees of LPfIT's user groups, forums and trust communicators.
October 28, 2008
Meet...Cathy Sutton
Cathy Sutton joined LPfIT as the clinical lead for community health in December 2007 and Next Generation caught up with her to find out more about what she's been working on.
November 7, 2008
Sharing your lesssons learned
LPfIT and BT have teamed up to launch a shared online database of lessons learned by trusts that have gone live with new IT systems.
August 20, 2008
Back to the floor
Kevin Jarrold, LPfIT's CIO joined the rest of LPfIT's staff this month to complete training to become a floorwalker. Floorwalkers provide on-the-ground support for acute trust staff during the days and weeks following go-live of the Cerner Millennium Electronic Care Records system.
August 20, 2008
Connecting with clinicians
Over 100 delegates from the acute, mental health and primary care settings from across London attended Improving Care in the Capital, NHS London's Programme for IT's clinical conference in June.
August 20, 2008
Barts and The London switches to CRS
Barts and The London NHS Trust became the first major London teaching hospital to go live with the foundation phase of the NHS CRS Cerner Millennium system in April.
April 28, 2008
Improving Care in the Capital conference
There are just a few weeks left for clinicians across the capital to book their place at LPfIT's next Clinical conference on 18 June 2008.
June 4, 2008
Meet… Phil Koczan
Phil Koczan is NHS London Programme for IT's clinical lead for GPs. He has worked as a GP for 15 years. Find out more about how he is working with London GPs to ensure that the new electronic patient record systems improve patient care.
May 10, 2008
PACS - a year on
It has now been more than a year since the London Programme for IT (LPfIT) and BT hit the Government's target for installing digital x-ray systems, or PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) all London trusts.
May 10, 2008
Encrypt your computers and mobile devices
Making sure information on laptops, personal computers, personal digital assistants and smartphones is kept secure is now easier thanks to a new encryption solution procured by NHS Connecting for Health on behalf of the NHS.
May 10, 2008
Southwark PCT gears up for new phase of EPS
More than 80 percent of GP practices and pharmacies across the country are now using the Electronic Prescription Service to generate, transmit and receive prescriptions electronically.
May 10, 2008
Reaping rewards: NELMHT realises the benefits of RiO
North East London Mental Health NHS Trust is reaping the benefits of better patient care and valuable time savings since it went on to the RiO system. The project commenced in 2006 and the trust went fully live in 2007.
May 10, 2008
Meet...Keith Strahan
Keith Strahan is NHS London Programme for IT's Business Process Lead for Social Care. Find out more about how he is working to improve and link up health and social care IT systems.
September 3, 2008
Looking to London's future
Following the publication of Professor Lord Darzi's Framework for Action, LPfIT is currently reviewing it's IM&T strategy.
August 20, 2008