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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new patient administration system, together with some elements of an electronic patient record.

NHS hospital trusts in the south of England have been told that they are unlikely to receive any central funding through a planned new Additional Supply Capability and Capacity procurement, E-Health Insider has been told.

Scotland has launched a one-stop health advice service to make it easier for the public to access health information and to provide better value for money.

Clinical software supplier, iSoft, has launched a web-based ePrescribing and medications administration system for the NHS.

The summary care record roll out The vast majority of the Summary Care Records identified as out-of-date are actually up-to-date, an investigation has discovered.

The shortlist for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT has been announced. Thirty four entries have been shorlisted for the nine categories, from a record 213 entries.

This month's industry round up has a focus on the web, with news of an intranet and extranet upgrade for NHS North East, a new training platform for staff dealing with crucially ill patients on general wards, an upgrade to the Spotting the Sick Child resource, and some interactive health services launched by the private sector. Plus, there are items about contract wins and product launches.

Staff and patients at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust are reporting issues with the Lorenzo electronic patient record system that went live at the start of June.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has replaced its ten year old Ascribe A&E system with iSoft's latest A&E system.

All NHS trusts will be obliged to become a foundation trust or merge with one by 2013, the Department of Health has announced.

NHS Direct has announced that it will treble the number of staff covered by its home working pilot by March 2011, following the early success of the scheme.

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health's arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.

US health information technology and services company Ingenix has signed a merger agreement to acquire Picis, the international provider of theatre systems.

Former NHS IT boss Matthew Swindells is set to join US health IT giant Cerner, following his resignation from consultancy firm Tribal.

Shadow GP commissioning consortia should begin to form in this financial year and start to take some responsibilities from primary care trusts.

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation and the World Health Organisation have signed a collaborative agreement to utilise WHO classifications and SNOMED CT together.

Chief information officers and IT directors in London are hoping to explore a capital-wide deal with Microsoft following the termination of the company's Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS.

NHS Coventry and NHS Warwickshire have gone live with McKesson's child health management system, CarePlus Child Health.

CSE Healthcare Systems has partnered with health IT consultants, Apira, to develop a business intelligence platform within RiO.

The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets - and to hold the NHS to account using 'national outcome goals'.