CfH jigsaw still ‘missing pieces’
The NHS IT programme is a jigsaw “still missing pieces” that need “to be found and put in place”.
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Calling time
Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Has the bar been dropped so low that the NHS IT programme is now guaranteed to succeed? Asks Jon Hoeksma.
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Bellamy learns from Royal Free
Martin Bellamy has said that lessons learned at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust will inform future system deployments under the National Programme for IT in the NHS. The head of NHS Connecting for Health and director of programme and systems delivery described the acute sector as the “Achilles heel of the national programme.” However, […]
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Connelly to open HC2009 in Harrogate
The British Computer Society has confirmed Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy as key speakers at its HC2009 event. Christine Connelly, chief information officer for health, will be opening the three day event, which takes place 28-30 April in Harrogate. Connelly is expected to address health informatics in a broad sense, including how it affects policy […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
A shake-up at the top of NHS IT will see power shift from NHS Connecting for Health to Whitehall, says E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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CfH stripped of key roles and reorganised
In a major shake-up of health service IT, key leadership roles are to be moved directly to the Department of Health.
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Gordon Hextall to leave CfH in April
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health, is to leave the agency at the beginning of April after five years with the troubled healthcare IT agency.
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider’s editor says the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report shows its time to take some tough decisions about NPfIT.
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