Outpatient /inpatient e-prescribing, Order communications, Pharmacy and Critical care Query
Dear FOI Team,
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.
Please enter 'No System Installed' or ‘No Department’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system or have the department:
System type – Outpatient e-prescribing
Supplier name
System name -
Date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
-
System name - Inpatient e-prescribing
Date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
-
System type – Order Communications
Supplier name
System name -
Date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
-
System type – Pharmacy
Supplier name
System name -
Date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
-
System type – Critical Care
Supplier name
System name -
Date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System definitions:
Outpatient e-prescribing - Advanced e-prescribing in use across wards for outpatient care, incorporating specialist prescribing and (ideally) clinical decision support, integrated as part of end-to-end medicines management. This possibly offers the single biggest opportunity for improving patient safety through digitalisation.
Inpatient e-prescribing - Advanced e-prescribing in use across wards for inpatient care, incorporating specialist prescribing and (ideally) clinical decision support, integrated as part of end-to-end medicines management. This possibly offers the single biggest opportunity for improving patient safety through digitalisation.
Order Communications - Electronic ordering communications systems (OCS) are computer applications used to enter diagnostic and therapeutic patient care orders, for example laboratory test requests or prescriptions, and to view test results. The primary aim of the system is to remove most of the current paper-based process for requesting laboratory investigations and for receiving results.
Pharmacy - Pharmacy orders and stock control is managed electronically
Critical care - A critical care information system for Intensive Care Units and high acuity care that enables clinicians to manage critical workflow and care plans for patients.
Thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully,
Miss G Kovacs
Dear Miss Kovacs
Thank you for your Freedom Of Information Request received on 9/12/22,
your request has been logged under ref FOI/411. Please quote this
reference in any other correspondence.
Sandwell General Hospital is committed to the Freedom Of Information Act
2000 and your request will now be considered in accordance to the act.
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Kind regards
Rebekah Whittaker- Green
Freedom of Information Office
: [Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
+ Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General
Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
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Dear SWBH-GM-FOIREQUESTS (SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST),
I hope this meets you well.
Do you know when we might receive a response to this request regarding your Trusts Outpatient /inpatient e-prescribing, Order communications, Pharmacy and Critical care systems, originally sent on 09/12/2022?
Yours sincerely,
Miss G Kovacs
Dear Miss G Kovacs
Re: FOI Request ref: F22/0411
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to
which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.
Please enter 'No System Installed' or ‘No Department’ under supplier name
if your trust does not use the system or have the department:
System type – Outpatient e-prescribing
Supplier name No system installed
System name -
date installed -
Contract expiration -
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No
Procurement framework -
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract (£) –
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System name - Inpatient e-prescribing
Date installed – Winter 2019
Contract expiration - unknown
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No unknown
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No no
Procurement framework - unknown
Other systems it integrates with? – please define ‘ it integrates with’
Total value of contract (£) – commercial in confidence
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System type – Order Communications
Supplier name Cerner
System name – Cerner Millennium Suite
Date installed – Winter 2019
Contract expiration - unknown
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No unknown
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No No
Procurement framework - unknown
Other systems it integrates with? – please define ‘ it integrates with’
Total value of contract (£) – commercial in confidence
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System type – Pharmacy
Supplier name Wellsky (JAC)
System name - JAC
Date installed - unknown
Contract expiration - Summer 2023
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No Yes
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No No
Procurement framework - unknown
Other systems it integrates with? – please define ‘ it integrates with’
Total value of contract (£) – commercial in confidence
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System type – Critical Care
Supplier name Cerner
System name – Cerner Millenium Suite
Date installed – Winter 2019
Contract expiration - unknown
Is this contract annually renewed? - Yes/No unknown
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? - Yes/No No
Procurement framework - unknown
Other systems it integrates with? – please define ‘ it integrates with’
Total value of contract (£) – commercial in confidence
Notes - e.g. we are currently out to tender
System definitions:
Outpatient e-prescribing - Advanced e-prescribing in use across wards for
outpatient care, incorporating specialist prescribing and (ideally)
clinical decision support, integrated as part of end-to-end medicines
management. This possibly offers the single biggest opportunity for
improving patient safety through digitalisation.
Inpatient e-prescribing - Advanced e-prescribing in use across wards for
inpatient care, incorporating specialist prescribing and (ideally)
clinical decision support, integrated as part of end-to-end medicines
management. This possibly offers the single biggest opportunity for
improving patient safety through digitalisation.
Order Communications - Electronic ordering communications systems (OCS)
are computer applications used to enter diagnostic and therapeutic patient
care orders, for example laboratory test requests or prescriptions, and to
view test results. The primary aim of the system is to remove most of the
current paper-based process for requesting laboratory investigations and
for receiving results.
Pharmacy - Pharmacy orders and stock control is managed electronically
Critical care - A critical care information system for Intensive Care
Units and high acuity care that enables clinicians to manage critical
workflow and care plans for patients.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Office
[Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
+ Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General
Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
Dear SWBH-GM-FOIREQUESTS (SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST),
Thank you for your response.
Could I please clarify some information?
We have information that your Trust has been using Inpatient e-prescribing system Dedalus- i.CM that with rolling contract. Have you extended their contract of have you replaced the system?
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Miss G Kovacs
Dear
We have been doing a review of the FOI inbox within the trust and the
requests we have received into it. Firstly, the trust apologises for the
delay you have received, please could you confirm if you still need this
information, and we will then progress this with a matter of urgency. If
we do not here from you by 29/3/23 we will close your request.
Kind regards
Rebekah Whittaker- Green
Freedom of Information Office
: [Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
+ Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General
Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
In the interests of the environment please think carefully before printing
this email
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