Letter from Fujitsu Services
In support of your preparation for the Committee
of Public Accounts on Monday, Fujitsu Services is happy to put
forward the latest plans for PAS implementation in acute NHS Trusts
in the Southern Cluster is to the end of October 2006.
We are working jointly with colleagues from the Cluster,
the SHAs and the local trusts and we reviewed progress at the
Southern Cluster Programme Board on Tuesday of this week. The
dates shown below are our best estimate of go-live dates as of
today with the provisio that recent NHS organisational changes
have generated some additional rework and we are currently confirming
the exact impact these changes will have on go-lives.
The current plans pay due attention to the state
of readiness at the trust and a simple programmatic sequence which
avoids, for example, concurrent go-lives in the same domain.
The joint teams actively manage progress at
each trust on a daily basis in order to endure that everything
will be in place for a smooth cut-over. Given the complexity of
the tasks and the main interdependencies some dates may change
slightly as the work progresses.
The RO software release being implemented provides
an integrated PAS systems with Choose and Book functionality (connecting
to the NHS data Spine), Maternity, Accident and Emergency, Theatre
Scheduling, Order Communictions and Results Reporting and a subset
of clinical documentation support including ability to record
problems and diagnoses, specific assessments, free-text clinical
notes and produce discharge summaries. Some trusts will continue
to use existing legacy systems for certain of the clinical functions
until the R1 or R2 software releases for their own convenience.
| Trust | Estimated Date
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| Weston | 28 July |
| Milton Keynes | 14 August |
| West Somerset | 21 August |
| East Surrey | 21 August |
| Mid and South Bucks | 3-phase—28 August to 29 September
|
| Bath | 10 September |
| Mid Hants | 25 September |
| NE Kent | 27 September |
| South Devon | 15 October |
| WASH | 15 October |
| East Somerset | 22 October |
| North Devon | 29 October |
We have not included the PACS and RIS implementations, which
might be included in the scope of the question regarding clinicals.
I can confirm that this programme continues on plan and a further
nine trusts will go live on PACS and 11 trusts will go live on
RIS systems between now and the end of October 2006.
23 June 2006
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