London to start implementation immediately
The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s announcement of the award of a £996m, 10-year contract to BT to act as Local Service Provider (LSP) for the capital. Speaking to E-Health Insider immediately after the announcement of the contract this morning David […]
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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts
Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having their own individual electronic NHS Care Record by 2010. The pledge came on the day the Department of Health announced the award of three crucial contracts, worth a total of £2,715m, to deliver key components […]
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Monday looks certain to be C-Day
After weeks of frenzied speculation, much of it by E-Health Insider readers in our E-Health Forums, conjecture on contract award day – ‘C-day’ – now appears over. Monday, 8 December now looks certain to be ‘C-day’, the date on which the first major contract awards by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be officially […]
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Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards
A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts about to be awarded by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with two more going to iSoft, and one to IDX. Overall the 11 November SunTrust Robinson Humphrey document, suggests that […]
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N3 Short-list Announced
The National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) has announced the shortlist of bidders selected for the New National Network (N3) contract for a new broadband network for the NHS due to be awarded by March 2004. Three suppliers have been shortlisted: BT, Cable & Wireless and EDS. BT and Cable & Wireless are […]
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NPfIT Contract Negotiations Get Tough
The long-term future of a key pillar of the Government’s modernisation strategy for the NHS depends on what increasingly resembles a game of chicken, now being played out between the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and the suppliers left in the contract negotiations for the procurement competitions. Participants in this high-stakes game of poker describe […]
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Electronic Prescription Transfers Added to Data Spine
Digital imaging and electronic transfer of prescriptions are the two major new applications added to the new expanded Output Based Specification (OBS2) for Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) and the national data spine. The weighty new documents describe a considerably thicker national ‘data spine’, with additional features and clinical functionality delivered at an early stage. […]
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Lockheed Martin Withdraws From National Programme
US technology giant, Lockheed Martin, has withdrawn from the procurement competitions being run by the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) the company confirmed to E-Health Insider today (Friday, 29 August). A Lockheed Martin spokesperson stated: “I can confirm that we have withdrawn from the National Programme for IT.” He declined to answer any questions […]
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Kwo Aims to Make London World’s Best Health System
Everyone needs a goal. David Kwo, the man responsible for delivering 21st century IT to the NHS in London, certainly has one. It’s nothing less that to make London “the leading metropolitan health system globally.” Interviewed by E-Health Insider as the selection process for the three shortlisted LSPs for London – consortia led by IBM, […]
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Broadband Upgrade for NHSnet Signed
The NHS has signed a contract with BT and C&W to provide broadband upgrades to NHSnet, the NHS’s private data network. The total value of the contract between BT and the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) for the upgraded network is £168m. Funded by the NHSIA, the upgrades will give every GP practice a 256Kbs fixed […]
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