Written question asked by Andrew Murrison (Conservative) on Thursday, 3 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 17 March 2005. It was answered by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) on Thursday, 17 March 2005 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the trusts listed in the National Programme for IT deployment plans as intending to deploy hospital and clinical administration systems by the end of March have fully implemented basic Patient Archiving and Communication systems for all users throughout each trust.

Answer: Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of the trusts listed in the National Programme for IT deployment plans as intending to deploy hospital and clinical administration systems by the end of March have fully implemented basic Patient Archiving and Communication systems for all users throughout each trust. [220757] Mr. Hutton: Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) deployment is not dependent on wider national programme for information technology deployments of hospital and clinical administration systems. PACS implementation work has started at 12 early adopter sites, which are expected to go live before the summer.

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