System C Provides NHS With IT Deployment Specialists

System C Healthcare has signed a new contract to provide healthcare IT deployment specialists to the UK government’s NHS Connecting for Health agency.

Under a framework contract with consultancy services firm QI Consulting, System C will provide specialist support to NHS Connecting for Health’s central deployment support team. This team is responsible for helping NHS trusts to implement the National Program for IT and transfer knowledge and skills to trust staff.

System C’s healthcare IT staff are already working directly for local service providers and trusts across the country. They have helped to implement solutions in areas such as patient administration, child health, primary care, theaters, results reporting, order communications, single assessment process (SAP), picture archiving (PACS) and decision support systems.

The new contract is a performance-based framework agreement under which System C will support the NHS Connecting for Health’s go-live process as and when required.

System C employees each have an average of over 15 years’ healthcare computing experience covering all aspects of implementation including design, program/project management, data migration, interfacing, testing, training and user support. For NHS Connecting for Health, they will be delivering hands-on assistance resolving issues, sharing experience and filling short-term resource gaps.

Clare Mitchell, chief deployment officer at NHS Connecting for Health, said: “System C has successfully begun to support trusts in preparing for go-lives, through being an integral part of the deployment team available for SHAs to call on. This framework lets us apply its knowledge and experience directly to help trusts meet their rollout plans for the coming year.”