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National Health Application and Infrastructure Service (NHAIS) is a system that has been developed by the NHS for the sole use of the NHS to help manage primary care patient registrations, practitioner payments, population screening and other services. NHAIS comprises the following modules that are used in N.I., primarily by Family Practitioner Services in the BSO: • Registration of GP patients, including electronic registration links to GP systems; • Breast Screening call/recall, including data transfer to the NBSS system in Belfast Trust; • Cervical Screening call/recall, including data transfer to the Belfast Trust Laboratories and storage of screening history.

The Regional Molecular Diagnostics Service (RMDS) formally Regional Genetics Laboratories has been collecting and storing patient records and DNA stock samples since the late 1980's as a service laboratory. The guidance from the Royal College of Pathologists on the retention and storage of pathological records and specimens (see attached) states that records including but not limited to laboratory file cards, working records, test results, records of telephoned or physical reports should be retained for 30 years or more. These records are required to answer potential legal queries as the level of service provided and extent of analysis performed continues to rapidly evolve with the technology available within any given service to perform the requested analysis.

Unidata Software is used by the SOSCARE community system. The SOSCARE system provides the ability to record clients and related referrals and assessments, and deploy and manage Social Work resources to provide appropriate services to clients. These clients come from areas including Childrens Services, Vulnerable Adults, Residential Care, Home Care, and Meals on Wheels, and the services provided include Fostering/Home Care (including payments), and Occupational Therapy (OT) and Hospital Social Work (SW) Referrals. The Childrens Services include areas such as Child Protection, Looked After Children [LAC], Childminders/Playgroups, Adoption and Foster Carers. Departmental Statutory Reporting for key areas is also provided. Business critical areas include Child Protection, Fostering Finance payments and Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Payments

National Health Application and Infrastructure Service (NHAIS) is a system that has been developed by the NHS for the sole use of the NHS to help manage primary care patient registrations, practitioner payments, population screening and other services. NHAIS comprises the following modules that are used in N.I., primarily by Family Practitioner Services in the BSO: • Registration of GP patients, including electronic registration links to GP systems; • Breast Screening call/recall, including data transfer to the NBSS system in Belfast Trust; • Cervical Screening call/recall, including data transfer to the Belfast Trust Laboratories and storage of screening history.

In June 2008, the Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) went live. The objective of the project was to capture prescription information from Community Pharmacies into a central EPES Database. This system was introduced to speed up pharmacy re-payments, allow for closer scrutiny of the prescribing and dispensing process, and reduce lost income through patients falsely claiming to be in receipt of a qualifying Social Security benefit.

The Clinical Communications Gateway (CCG) was developed and is supported by National Services Scotland- a Public Body providing services to the NHS in Scotland. NSS have provided the system to the HSC and is used to send and track electronic referrals between GPs and secondary and community care services. NSS provide application system support and upgrade services to the HSC. CCG is the regionally agreed referral mechanism between Primary, Secondary and Community Care services.

The Cancer Patient Pathway System (CaPPS) provides the Health & Social Care Trusts in NI with an IT system that enables all patients referred with a suspect cancer to be tracked through a time clinical pathway. CaPPS provides support to the Cancer Services across the HSC to meet the targets set out by Government on which the service is monitored. CaPPS is also used for the management of Multidisciplinary team Meetings (MDTs). MDMs and effective decision making improve the quality of clinical intervention and care for people with cancer. The CaPPS application is vital to enable the provision of cancer care across the HSC. The CaPPS system has become the only source of information and the only solution used in the management of MDTs.

The SOSCARE system provides the ability to record clients and related referrals and assessments, and deploy and manage Social Work resources to provide appropriate services to these clients. These clients come from areas including Childrens Services, Vulnerable Adults, Residential Care, Home Care, and Meals on Wheels, and the services provided include Fostering/Home Care (including payments), and Occupational Therapy (OT) and Hospital Social Work (SW) Referrals. The Childrens Services include areas such as Child Protection, Looked After Children [LAC], Childminders/Playgroups, Adoption and Foster Carers. Departmental Statutory Reporting for key areas is also provided. Business critical areas include Child Protection, Fostering Finance payments and Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Payments

The Clinical Communications Gateway (CCG) was developed and is supported by National Services Scotland- a Public Body providing services to the NHS in Scotland. NSS have provided the system to the HSC and is used to send and track electronic referrals between GPs and secondary and community care services. NSS provide application system support and upgrade services to the HSC. CCG is the regionally agreed referral mechanism between Primary, Secondary and Community Care services.

In June 2008, the Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) went live. The objective of the project was to capture prescription information from Community Pharmacies into a central EPES Database. This system was introduced to speed up pharmacy re-payments, allow for closer scrutiny of the prescribing and dispensing process, and reduce lost income through patients falsely claiming to be in receipt of a qualifying Social Security benefit.

The purpose of colposcopy is the prevention of cervical cancer through the early detection and treatment of precancerous lesions (CIN). The colposcopy service in Northern Ireland provides care for women with abnormal cervical smears and related conditions. Colposcopy is critical in the prevention of cervical cancer for women at risk. A computerised colposcopy system was implemented in all Trusts in December 2013 to meet the recommendations of the Northern Ireland Audit Office report.

The Regional Theatre Management System (RTMS) has been operational since April 2007 and is used extensively both at Trust and Regional levels as a vital information tool that assists with Strategic Service Changes and Productivity Improvements. This is achieved through the use of data provided from the system to monitor such aspects as the utilisation of theatres and the patient experience through the monitoring of patient procedure cancellations. RTMS provides the Trusts with vital information to monitor their Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators against HSCB targets.

Since its inception in 2013, NIECR has become a critical system for Healthcare staff across Northern Ireland providing key, up-to-date patient information. NIECR is a web based portal that sits on top of a large range of current HSC information and clinical systems to give Health and Social Care professionals a single consolidated view of a patient's key medical information. NIECR is a critical front line system providing a clinical interface for over 30,000 active users. The number of users continues to steadily increase from across all Secondary Care Trusts, Ambulance Service, Primary Care (including GP Out of Hours), community and the independent sector. Many of the users are front line users who depend on NIECR to inform clinical decision making especially in emergency situations when essential medical background information would not be available and a patient could be at risk if for example a medication is prescribed without knowing the contraindications.

The National Pathology Exchange (NPEx) was developed in 2009 by X-Lab Systems as a product they call Labnostics. It is a national digital hub allowing pathology test requests and results to be sent between UK laboratories irrespective of the type of LIMS that each lab is using. The Core LIMS project has secured via its approved Full Business Case (FBC) funding for NPEx services that will provide an electronic solution to eliminate manual workflows associated with referring tests to other laboratories outside of the HSC.

The purpose of colposcopy is the prevention of cervical cancer through the early detection and treatment of precancerous lesions (CIN). The colposcopy service in Northern Ireland provides care for women with abnormal cervical smears and related conditions. Colposcopy is critical in the prevention of cervical cancer for women at risk. A computerised colposcopy system was implemented in all Trusts in December 2013 to meet the recommendations of the Northern Ireland Audit Office report.

he Regional Theatre Management System (RTMS) has been operational since April 2007 and is used extensively both at Trust and Regional levels as a vital information tool that assists with Strategic Service Changes and Productivity Improvements. This is achieved through the use of data provided from the system to monitor such aspects as the utilisation of theatres and the patient experience through the monitoring of patient procedure cancellations. RTMS provides the Trusts with vital information to monitor their Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators against HSCB targets.