All posts tagged CPMS

Solutions take second place to the story…

A headline caught my eye in a magazine in a hotel bar in Brussels, ‘ Solutions take second place to the story…’ This headline prompted me and another person from the UK to reach for the magazine and want to read further. This story is about both the application of the concept in the magazine… Read More

The year that was…

Reviewing the year, something we should all do to reflect on the success and ensure that lessons are learnt from the elements that could be done differently. It has been a really busy year; a year that we had been promising the team will enable us to be more considered and reflective in the future,… Read More

In the words of Paul Daniels, ‘Ta Da!”

Today is launch day, a big day that has been coming for more than twelve months, today will see the finished product, the Central Portfolio Management System (CPMS) demonstrated to the most senior team of our organisation. Eighteen months ago I inherited the procurement of CPMS as a large programme into my directorate, the delivery… Read More

Frameworks and Fans

Does the NHS need another Information Systems framework to work within? I hope so as we have just published one! The Local Portfolio Management System, Systems of Choice, or LPMS SoC for short. A nice neat short name and matching acronym, so it fits with other frameworks from that point of view! The analogy of… Read More

Why our IT implementation is going to be different to the norm!

Having spent many months defining a set of detailed requirements for the building of a new Central Portfolio Management System (CPMS), then many more months creating a specification which, through the hard work of our supplier (Tribal Education Ltd), has slowly become our new Information System we are now on the verge of entering the… Read More

Innovation or Science Fiction… It happens here!

Innovation is an abstract of what we do every day, but a new system that has been a couple of years in the coming will be delivered by Father Christmas this year. A system that will become the spine of information systems across the clinical research economy in the UK, a system that will live… Read More