C+B certificate granted for MedWay PAS

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13 Jan 2006

Healthcare systems and solutions specialists, System C, has achieved Choose and Book compliance certification from NHS Connecting for Health for its MedWay patient administration system (PAS).

System C says this means hospitals using MedWay will be able to publish appointment slots electronically to the central Choose and Book system and, in turn, it will be possible to book those appointments directly with the GP surgery using the specially written Choose and Book system.

Masami Torii, director of products and solutions, said: “We have put a lot of work into making MedWay Choose and Book compliant and I am delighted that we got through on first attempt.”

The MedWay PAS is part of the MedWay system, a comprehensive electronic patient record system developed by System C which is in use at a number of NHS trusts around the UK.

The first live implementation of Medway Choose and Book is set to take place in the first quarter of 2006 at Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust. The trust’s assistant director of IT, Geoff Berry, said: “Upgrading to the Choose and Book compliant version of MedWay will allow the trust to play a full part in the Booking and Choice programme.

“Our services are currently indirectly bookable. The introduction of a fully compliant system will allow the trust to offer directly bookable services making the process easier and quicker for patients, GPs and the trust.”

Readers Comments

In the grand scale of things .....

13 Jan 06 09:11

All credit to System C for making their MedWay system C&B compliant But this article (and the previous one on the Liverpool theatre implementation) do no more than announce the achievement of milestones that are, frankly, trivial when considered against the magnitude of the CfH programme, now into its fourth year. So rather than doing credit to CfH, I think this announcement simply emphasises the extent to which the programme has slipped.

In the grand scale of which things?

13 Jan 06 13:01

Erm, in what way is this a CfH story, or can you just not help yourself?

In the scale of your average sandpit...

13 Jan 06 15:41

This is probably signalling an end to the dreadful CfH testing sandpit arrangements which Trust PAS were put through. The story seems to be saying that testing for spine compliance is now an easier affiar than it was for us early implementers, who had the frustrations of CfH shutting sandpits down mid-way through testing and sandpits falling over every other day.

And the LSP is?

14 Jan 06 09:53

Which LSP are deploying SystemC's Medway PAS product as part of the national programme? If none of them, then surely this achievement will be in vain as it will be replaced by one of the LSP's PAS offerings? Or is this a precursor to one of the LSP's taking on Medway as their PAS offering?

Erm ... in the grand scale of CfH

16 Jan 06 08:14

In what way is any aspect of C&B deployment *not* a CfH related story?

Confusion

john.sutherland@kss.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

16 Jan 06 08:37

Did anyone at System C or CfH consider the potential conflict of name with Medway PCT in the south-east of England?

Confusion

16 Jan 06 11:43

It should be fairly simple - one's a PAS system, the other is a Primary Care Trust. After all, no-one has confused the PCT with the river.

NPfIT Compliance

17 Jan 06 17:13

I have a vision of the sandpit falling over (wobbly PFI leg), and perhaps a lost model community being revealed.

System C is not the first PAS company to achieve compliance. The relevance is that C&B is so poorly written or processes considered for secondary care, that being able to do directly bookable appointments should be a timesaver for their Trusts.

Except that we have an overnight harvesting of available slots, which means that it is increasingly out of date as the day progresses.

And when the CfH systems stopped around Christmas, the directly booking Trusts were unable to process patients this way.

When are the LSPs introducing fully compliant solutions ?

NPfIT Compliance

jon.nevison@wmuh.nhs.uk

17 Jan 06 17:35

When they've got all four sandpit legs the same length probably.