14-681: The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust runs George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton , Warwickshire , England and the Urgent Care Centre at Leicester Royal Infirmary . In October 2013, as a result of the Keogh Review , the trust was put into the highest risk category by the Care Quality Commission . It was put into a buddying arrangement with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust . The NHS Trust Development Authority initiated
28-822: A Cerner system. North Bristol was the first NHS trust in the South of England to take the system as part of an open procurement exercise outside of DXC's central relationship with the NHS. Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust installed a Lorenzo system in May 2017. In 2018 the company was given about £10 million for a national “digital exemplar” programme for the National Programme for IT . Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust , North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust and Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are to be
42-530: A bust of herself which can be seen in the main entrance. The George Eliot Hospital Training and Education Centre ('GETEC') opened in July 2005. An Acute health trust report released in 2006 suggested that George Eliot Hospital should be downgraded and some of its services moved to the new University Hospital Coventry in the Walsgrave area of Coventry which is nearby. The report generated local opposition and led to
56-520: A Standing Order Arrangement. The SOA allows the NHS to negotiate more beneficial agreements with providers by using the full purchasing power of the combined NHS system. There is a long history of negotiations between the NHS and the company. On 4 September 2012, the UK Department of Health announced that whilst it was "dismantling" the National Programme for IT, Lorenzo would be supplied under
70-709: A competitive process to identify an organisation to take over the trust in 2012 but stopped the competition in March 2014 after the Trust got a "good" Care Quality Commission rating. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust , University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust , Circle Health and Care UK were all considered. The costs of this exercise to NHS bodies amounted to £1.78 million. The George Eliot trust spent £426,000 on legal advice and support, £358,000 on financial advice and support, and £434,000 on procurement advice and project management. In August 2014 it emerged that
84-825: A new legally binding agreement with DXC. The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust was the first to deploy the technology in June 2010, which was in Release 1.9 at the time. Humber NHS Foundation Trust was the first mental health organisation to use the DXC Lorenzo patient record systems in June 2012. Lorenzo systems were introduced to Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust during 2015. In June 2015 Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust went live with Lorenzo. In July 2015, Digital Health Intelligence reported DXC as stating that 19 NHS Trusts had contracted to take
98-716: A teaching aid, the museum evolved into one of the few NHS-owned museums in the country until cost-cutting measures forced it to close. The hospital expanded in July 1993, when the Manor Hospital, which had provided the Nuneaton's accident and emergency services, operating theatres and orthopedic wards closed; the Manor Hospital has since turned into a doctor's surgery . The Queen visited the George Eliot Hospital in December 1994 as part of her first visit to Nuneaton and unveiled
112-491: A £12 million deficit in 2014/5. It spent 11.2% of its total turnover on agency staff in that year. George Eliot Hospital George Eliot Hospital is a single site hospital located in Nuneaton , Warwickshire , it is managed by the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust . It provides a full range of emergency and elective medical services, including maternity services, to the local area. The Hospital
126-517: Is one of many local buildings named after Nuneaton-born author George Eliot . Additionally, many of the hospital's surgical and medical wards are named after characters within George Eliot novels (e.g. Felix Holt , Arbury lodge , Caterina, Adam Bede , Dolly Winthrop ). The Hospital also has a set of operating theatres on the first floor. The George Eliot Hospital opened in 1948. The hospital established its own museum in 1982: originally intended as
140-685: The Lorenzo system. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust , Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust , Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust are also implementing Lorenzo under a financial support package which has been described as controversial. Deployments of Lorenzo have not been without reported teething troubles. Delays in the provision of data to NHS England 's waiting list system were linked to Lorenzo implementations in an HSJ article in May 2014. North Bristol NHS Trust went live with Lorenzo in November 2015, replacing
154-469: The Trust was exploring a number of projects led by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018 it became part of a three-trust hospital chain with South Warwickshire and Wye Valley NHS Trust . In 2019 it implemented a programme to become paperless using Alfresco Software . In October 2022 it terminated the otorhinolaryngology contract with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust after long delays were reported. The Trust forecast
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#1733202256815168-583: The formation of a local protest group 'Nuneaton People's Protest Group', which was successful in fighting off the ward closures. In May 2010, the Hospital announced that it was closing two wards, Lydgate and Romola, part of a new series of cost-cutting measures. The Trust is one of a small number implementing the Lorenzo patient record systems , having accepted a controversial financial support package in 2013. Nuneaton Area Hospital Broadcasting Service broadcasts from
182-511: The hospital. Lorenzo patient record systems Lorenzo was a controversial electronic health record platform (EHR) by DXC Technology , originally designed in the early 2010s as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS . Lorenzo was deployed across more than 20 NHS trusts across the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2015, with most trusts progressing procurement activities to replace
196-489: The system as of 2020. Lorenzo has been a highly criticised platform, with NHS reviews and coroner investigations finding the system responsible for a number of adverse patient events. The NHS and DXC Technology initiated negotiations for a new whole-of-system EHR in 2010. Despite the National Programme for IT being wound up by the UK Department of Health and Social Care, the department announced that it would enter into an agreement with DXC to supply Lorenzo to NHS trusts under
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