Health minister Mike O'Brien said the upgrades of Cerner Millenium, the patient administration system for trusts in the south of England, will take place after BT has transferred their systems from a data centre run by the local service provider Fujitsu. It expects to complete the preparatory work by the end of March 2010.
"Timing of completion of the upgrades will depend on the outcome of ongoing discussion between the national health service locally and the company," O'Brien said in a parliamentary written answer on 5 January 2010. He added: "Discussions are continuing with BT with regard to implementing Cerner Millennium at some further sites in the southern programme for IT area."
BT has a £546m contract to provide National Programme for IT services to 12 acute trusts and 25 mental and community trusts in the region. The first of the latter group, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, went live with CSE's RiO patient record software in December.
O'Brien saidt the eight acute trusts in the south already using Cerner Millennium are Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Weston Area Health in North Somerset, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Milton Keynes General Hospital, Buckinghamshire Hospitals and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals. He added that the system is typically also used by the local primary care trusts in these areas.
In answer to a number of questions from his Conservative shadow Stephen O'Brien, the minister provided a full list of trusts using the National Programme for IT software. In London, Cerner Millennium is in use at seven trusts: Barnet and Chase Farm, Queen Mary's Sidcup, Barts and the London, the Royal Free Hampstead, and since November 2009 Kingston Hospital.
Homerton and Newham had already installed Cerner systems independently of the National Programme, but they are now being managed by the London section of the programme, he added.
Version 1.0 of iSoft's Lorenzo is in use for radiology at Morecambe Bay and Bradford Teaching Hospitals in general surgery and urology, and in December the latter trust also started using its clinical documentation software. South Birmingham Primary Care Trust has a number of podiatrists using the system.
O'Brien said that in October 2009 Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust went live with Lorenzo's clinical documentation software for rheumatology, while Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust started using the software at five of its sites. In December, Stockport Primary Care Trust went live with the system. The new version of Lorenzo, version 1.9, is currently only in use at Bury Primary Care Trust.
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