Health written question – answered at on 11 May 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) how many sites in the Southern cluster of the National Programme for IT are (a) due to deploy and (b) in the process of deploying (i) the RiO information system and (ii) Cerner Millennium under the management of BT;
(2) for how many (a) trusts and (b) sites in the Southern cluster of the National Programme for IT BT has now assumed responsibility.
In the southern programme for information technology, previously the southern cluster, the eight acute trusts that had previously installed Cerner Millennium under Fujitsu as local service provider are transferring to BT. In addition, four more acute trusts are planning to deploy the system, three of which are in the early stages of deployment. In all, these deployments will cover 26 sites.
Under the same arrangement, 22 community and mental health trusts are due to deploy the RiO system at 25 sites, including one trust which has already started work on deployment.
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