NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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ESR set to complete roll-out
The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across England and Wales live with the centralised national human resources system. When fully operational, the system will hold the details of almost 1.3m NHS staff members, replacing 28 core payroll systems, and 67 legacy human […]
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NHSmail users have mailbox shrunk
NHS staff who use the health service’s email service NHSmail have been informed that after a recent move to Microsoft Exchange their mailbox size has been capped. Some 80% of NHS accounts have been capped at just 200Mb, which appears miserly compared with the hefty 6Gb offered by Gmail for free, or the 5Gb offered […]
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CfH to spend a further £6.4bn by 2011
Connecting for Health will spend a further £6.4bn over the next four years to 2011, according to figures given by health minister Ben Bradshaw.
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Single info governance board plans unveiled
Full details of the cost and role of the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care were published this week following the introduction of the Health and Social Care Bill to the House of Commons. The bill confirms that the new board will have responsibility for the NHS Care Record Guarantee for […]
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SUS blasted as ‘not fit for purpose’
The Secondary Uses Service (SUS) is not fit for purpose and is failing to provide GP practices and PCTs with the information they need for practice based commissioning (PBC), according to the NHS Alliance. The criticism of SUS follows the results of the latest quarterly survey of PBC published by the Department of Health last […]
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Lesson from history
A radio programme looked back at the progress of the National Programme for IT. Linda Davidson tuned in.
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NHS budget to reach £110 billion by 2011
The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase of 4%, the Chancellor announced on Tuesday. The additional investment should help the service realise savings of around £8.2 billion by 2010–11 with new technology helping to contribute to this. A £100m innovation fund is […]
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NHS Wales’ IT programme ‘getting balance right’
After an exhaustive examination of NHS Wales’ progress in IT, Gwyn Thomas seemed pleased with the reports coming back to him last week.
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Local NHS IT capital spending increases 40 percent
The NHS in England has invested an estimated £336m capital spend on local IM&T projects in 2006/07, an increase of almost 40% on the previous year, according to figures from the NHS Information Management and Technology (IM&T) Investment Survey 2006. Combined with the £390m capital spend by the Department of Health central through its agency NHS Connecting for […]
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