Dr Gwyn Thomas: The NHSIA as a Service Provider
Understanding the complex shifting relationship between the NHS Information Authority and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has been difficult over the past year. However, in an exclusive interview with E-Health Insider, NHSIA chief executive Dr Gywn Thomas, argues that the NHSIA’s role has remained largely unchanged. “As a special health authority […]
News
Budget 2003:Chancellor Stands By Spending Plans
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week reaffirmed public spending plans due to deliver 7.2% growth in NHS spending over the next five years, including unprecedented investment in healthcare IT. Delivering the 2003 Budget, he told the Commons, “We have not been, and will not be, diverted from increasing investment on our health and public services at […]
News
Conservatives Detect Panic on Healthcare IT
A Conservative health spokesperson has told E-Health Insider that he is worried the NHS National Programme for IT is too big, has resulted in local progress grinding to a halt, and threatens to squeeze out local priorities. He calls for the programme to be broken down into more manageable pieces that better reflect local service […]
News
The 12 Days of Christmas IT
Thanks to everyone who entered our Christmas wish list competition. Phil Graham, head of information management and technology at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust, is a worthy winner with his variation on the 12 Days of Christmas that is bound to strike a chord with many readers. His prize is a bottle of […]
News
Brighton and Sussex selects Capula Elan
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a three-year deal to Capula Elan to modernise its ageing patient administration systems (PAS). Capula Elan will replace the trust’s existing PAS systems, supplied by Torex and IRC, with its Oasis system. The three-year contract covers two major hospital sites and six organisations. The deal is […]
News
US Healthcare Slow to Adopt IT
“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in a BusinessWeek round up of US healthcare technology. The influential magazine and its online service concludes – as many have before – that healthcare has been very slow to adopt information technology that could improve […]
News
Bristol Chooses Paris Records System
Bristol City Council, the largest unitary authority in England, has selected supplier in4tek to supply its Paris electronic record systems and IT solutions from in4tek to support Bristol’s Social Services and Health Department’s goal of delivering integrated care. The integrated records system will be introduced over the next two years, beginning with a six month pilot […]
News
Reader’s Feedback – Summary No 1
Though we always say we welcome feedback, E-health Insider has, so far, not published comments from subscribers. Let’s start to put that right this week with some recent comments. Inevitably the Budget and the Wanless Review report published just before it provoked interest. A LIS programme manager e-mailed us in sheer frustration… “Having listened to […]
News
Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless
From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British politics. According to leading Health IT figures the challenge is to rapidly deliver systems that provide real benefits to patients. Yesterday’s Budget saw the Government stake its future on delivering dramatic improvements in the NHS, […]
News
NHS Needs To Double IT Spending – Wanless
A doubling of spending on information and communication technology will be needed to fund ambitious targets set out in the NHS Information Strategy, according to the Wanless Review on healthcare funding commissioned by The Treasury. The report’s author, former NatWest Group chief executive, Derek Wanless, and his review team recommend that the money should be […]
News