London Programme for IT

Latest news from LPfIT

Use these pages to keep up-to-date on the latest news and developments from the London Programme for IT.

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LPfIT's RiO team wins E-Health Insider Award
Congratulations to LPfIT's RiO team for winning the E-Health Insider Award for Excellence in Major Healthcare IT Development at the E-Health Insider Awards held in association with BT.
RiO upgrade improves patient care in community and mental health
All London community and mental health trusts using RiO from CSE Healthcare have upgraded to the latest version of the software, version 5.
Royal Free checklist for gastro-intestinal bleeding
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of guidelines and actions for clinicians within its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.
Southwark gets ready for next RiO upgrade
Testing is now underway on the next version of the RiO electronic patient record system, Release 1, which is due to be rolled out to the first trust in March 2011.
Eighth trust gets ready for RiO
London's mental health trusts have seen some significant benefits from moving from paper-based records to the RiO electronic patient record system with seven out of ten trusts already live on the system.
Using data to improve patient care
With the coalition's White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS' promising an ‘information revolution' more emphasis will be placed on the availability of data and comparative information
Truth behind the headlines
A Department of Health review of the National Programme for IT has concluded that in line with the changes to the NHS described in the White Paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS", a centralised national approach is no longer required and decision making and responsibility will be localised. Here we outline what this means for the National Programme for IT.
Highlights of the White Paper
The Secretary of State's White Paper - Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS – represents the biggest change in the health service since X. And the pace of this change is going to be quicker than anything experienced before.
Change for the better
Discover how a ward clerk, nurse and doctor feel about new electronic patient records at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
Autumn events
London Health 2010 is the largest one day event bringing together the capital's healthcare community