Logica helps NHS trusts to share data for benefit of child healthcare
19 February 2010
Increased collaboration helps health and community staff to improve child welfare
Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced that it has been selected by St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to provide a new system to support child healthcare and community services in the North West.
The trust has chosen PARIS, an Oracle-based application from Civica Health & Social Care, to support two Primary Care Trusts (PCTs): NHS Halton & St Helens and NHS Knowsley. Working as the prime contractor, Logica with its sub-contractor Civica (formerly in4tek) will deliver products and services that enable the trusts to develop new ways of managing the childrens’ health records across the PCTs, promoting more efficient use of community resources by tracking children’s health records from birth through education. Additionally, staff will be able to manage medical issues, immunisation requirements and health alerts more effectively. Once in place the system will continue to advance record keeping and workflow in other community health services, enabling the PCTs to work more closely together for improved service provision.
Neil Darvill, Director of Informatics at St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, explains “We wanted to make better use of the existing data and relationships that we had. Plus at the same time, build a scalable system that would allow us to increase interaction and sharing across the different divisions of the trusts and within the local community. The new system will allow the PCTs to improve current work processes, while managing future child and community health more effectively, through better planning, tracking, and referral and escalation of cases.”
The project will be completed in 2010 and Logica worked with specialist application company, Civica to respond to the requirements and develop the delivery strategy with the Trust. Logica and Civica will provide implementation, data migration, and other technical services including training on user designed screens and reports.
Chris George, Director of Health and Devolved Government at Logica, concludes; “Technology has enabled care services to become increasingly collaborative. St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is demonstrating a new service model and Logica is proud to support the benefits of interconnected health and community care for child welfare. Logica is committed to enabling the NHS and social services to share records securely and work more closely together for improved future healthcare.”
About Civica Group Ltd
Civica Group Limited is a market leader in software-based solutions that help organisations to improve service delivery and efficiency, with specialist expertise in local government, social housing, enforcement, education, healthcare and regulated markets. Blending consulting, software and managed services, the group supplies more than 1,800 customers in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and the USA, including 90 per cent of the UK’s local authorities.
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.
