Parties clash on NHS funding and reform
The health spokesmen of the three main political parties have clashed over the future funding and structure of the NHS at a King’s Fund debate ahead of the general election.
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Hunt says £2 billion is for ‘change’
Updated: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the £2 billion ‘additional’ funding that Chancellor George Osborne has announced in his autumn statement will be used to support change in the NHS.
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Health secretary describes Burnham Land
The general election Health secretary Andy Burnham has started his election campaign with a speech outlining the key points of Labour’s health manifesto. In a speech at the King’s Fund think-tank, he said the party would enable a more preventative, productive and patient-centred NHS. Burnham did not mention the National Programme for IT in the […]
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DH commissions ‘Darling Dashboard’
The Department of Health has appointed a consortium to develop a ‘Darling Dashboard’ that will proactively help the NHS to make the savings demanded by last week’s Budget. The consortium of consultants, data analysts, and software developers has been asked to build a web-based application that will give the NHS real-time access to information about progress […]
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Lorenzo ‘will stop at Release 2’
CSC may only deliver the first two releases of Lorenzo, the electronic patient record system being deployed across the North, Midlands and East of England, under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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NPfIT GP systems ‘target for cuts’
The development of new GP systems by local service providers is likely to be a target of cuts to the National Programme for IT in the NHS, health secretary Andy Burnham has indicated.
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Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m
Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m will be trimmed from the way it is run and the scope of some systems.
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EMIS rebuts coroner’s criticism
EMIS has rebutted criticism from a coroner following the death of a female prisoner in Holloway Prison in London. City of London coroner Paul Matthews criticised the fact that it is possible to add information retrospectively into the EMIS system, after an inquest into the death of 34 year old Annemarie Cox, who hanged herself. […]
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Multimedia organ donor campaign launches
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a UK-wide multimedia campaign to promote organ donation. The £3m campaign, coordinated by the government’s Central Office of Information, includes the health service’s first national television campaign and an online game. The campaign aims to highlight the fact that three people in need of a transplant die every day, […]
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Picture yourself old with the DH
The government is using face-transforming software to encourage the public to have their say on its proposals for a radical reform of the care system. The Big Care Debate Face of Care is harnessing online software that allows people to ‘age’ a photograph of themselves and generate an image of what they might look like […]
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