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Blackwood handed health IT

22 July 2016

Nicola Blackwood has been handed responsibility for health IT in the post-Brexit shake-up of government.

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

22 July 2016

This week’s round up features new products and developments from well-known healthcare IT companies, including System C and Civica.

NAO raps DH for ‘admin error’ that just kept NHS in black

21 July 2016

The National Audit Office has rapped the Department of Health over the knuckles for the way it managed to avoid breaching its Parliamentary spending limits; while think-tanks have expressed concern about the impact of this morning’s financial reset.

Trusts and CCGs face crack-down in ‘reset’ on NHS finances

21 July 2016

Five trusts and nine clinical commissioning groups have been put into a new ‘intervention regime’ NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced as part of a financial ‘reset’ to try and get the health service back to financial stability.

Royal Brompton goes live with Lorenzo

21 July 2016

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust has switched to a Lorenzo patient administration system; one of the first to do so outside the North, Midlands and East of England.

DrDoctor cuts DNAs at Guy’s and St Thomas’

20 July 2016

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust chief technology officer says that introducing a new digital booking system will save the trust the equivalent of £3.4 million a year.

Health IT rethink needed amid “colossal” financial challenge

19 July 2016

Sir David Dalton has called for a radical shake-up in the way that NHS IT is bought and deployed in a health select committee report that warns the NHS is facing a “colossal” financial challenge.