We are delighted to announce that CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) in their capacity as the North West and West Midlands Local Service Provider for the Connecting for Health programme have chosen HSS as their partner to provide RIS in this cluster.

HSS and CSC have forged a successful working partnership which has enabled a rapid programme of implementations. It is forecast that six sites will be live before the end of 2006 with already 4 successful implementations achieved since late September 2006 (please see the following news article for the sites).

We are please to welcome on board the Trusts who have implemented CRIS listed below: -

CSC LSP (North West & West Midlands (NWWM))
	Trust Name	Date of Go-Live
	North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	26/09/2006
	Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust	30/10/2006
	East Cheshire NHS Trust	06/11/2006
	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	13/11/2006
Accenture (North East & East Midlands (NEEM))
	Trust Name	Date of Go-Live
	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	30/10/2006
	Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	06/11/2006
Fujitsu LSP (South)
	Trust Name	Date of Go-Live
	Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	03/09/2006
	Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust	25/09/2006
	United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	09/10/2006
	Weston Area Health NHS Trust	14/10/2006

As a result of our increasing customer base, HSS are pleased to announce the appointment of 3 new members to compliment our existing teams.

These include 2 new members within our Support Team: -

• Craig Edwards
• Jamie Sanderson

We would also like to announce the appointment of Shelley Binns, who will taking up the newly created position of Security & Quality Manager.

We welcome them and wish them every bit of luck in joining Healthcare Software Systems.