Over-budget GPES has no future – NAO
Significant delays to the General Practice Extraction Service have seen costs rise from £14 million to £40 million – and design failures mean it is unlikely to have a long-term future, a National Audit Office report has said.
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Stevens reiterates importance of tech
The use of new technology will play an important part in achieving the £22 billion in efficiency savings that NHS services in England need to make in the next five years, according to the NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens.
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Care.data, NHS.uk and N4 get red lights
The successful delivery of care.data, NHS.uk and N4 “appears to be unachievable”, with all three major projects getting red lights, according to a report published by the government’s Major Projects Authority.
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New E-Referral Service still has issues
Users of the new NHS e-Referral Service are still experiencing significant slowdown and other issues nearly two weeks after the system went live.
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Time for a change?
There’s just a year until National Programme for IT contracts end in the North, Midlands and East. Thomas Meek wonders what mental health and community trusts are doing.
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Two down, three to go
Trusts in London and the South are set to be off their National Programme for IT contracts by October. Now suppliers are looking north; where things are messier. Rebecca McBeth reports.
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Digital Health interview: Philippe Houssiau
CSC’s head of healthcare in the UK tells Jon Hoeksma the company has “stayed the course” on Lorenzo, but its future lies in supporting new service models.
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Another view: mind the gap
GP Neil Paul wonders why an “implementation gap” so often opens up between a simple idea and actually doing it; whether that’s handing out tablet computers, or providing remote access to records and systems.
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Another view: just do IT
GP Neil Paul says it’s time to stop talking about big data and tech funds and do something useful – like give every district nurse in the country an iPad.
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The holly and the IT
It’s one thing for the fairy lights to go out; it’s quite another for the IT to go down. Preparation is key to making sure they keep running; even if that means celebrating in October, Paul Curran discovers.
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