Burns and Burstow join health team
Two health ministers have been appointed to join health secretary Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health. The appointment of Conservative Simon Burns and Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow suggests there may not be a ministerial place for Conservative Stephen O’Brien or Lib Dem Norman Lamb, who both shadowed health in opposition. However, the junior ministerial […]
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Intel gets approval for telecare device
Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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Richard Jeavons to leave Connecting for Health
Richard Jeavons, Connecting for Health’s head of service implementation is to leave the agency before it implements its key detailed electronic record systems. Two weeks ago at a DH press conference Jeavons said detailed electronic patient record systems would after repeated delays begin to be deployed by the summer. Jeavons, a highly experienced NHS […]
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Carruthers becomes the fifth SRO for NHS IT programme
Sir Ian Carruthers, acting chief executive of the NHS, has been appointed the latest overall senior responsible owner for the £6.2bn national programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT). He becomes the most senior person yet to take on the mantle for the late-running NHS IT project, which has had a string of different SROs since […]
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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CfH nursing clinical lead to quit for Scotland
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that its national clinical lead for nursing, Heather Tierney-Moore, is to leave her post for a new job in Scotland. Tierney-Moore, who is also chief nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has been appointed director of nursing at NHS Lothian and will take up her post in the […]
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Welsh telemedicine in great shape, says First Minister
Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan, has lent his support to the use of telemedicine within the country, saying that it has had great benefits for NHS Wales. Speaking ahead of last week’s seventh summit of the British Irish Council on the Isle of Man, which focused on the benefits of telemedicine, Morgan said: "Wales has […]
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Burns steps down as NPfIT implementation lead
Alan Burns, the chief executive of Trent strategic health authority, has stood down as the implementation lead for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) just six months after being appointed. He is the latest in a series of senior experienced NHS leaders and clinicians at the top of the programme to have left early […]
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Pessimism rife among doctors about NPfIT’s benefits
The latest Medix-UK survey, co-sponsored by E-Health Insider, shows that three years into the NHS National Programme for IT confidence in and enthusiasm for the programme has declined among NHS doctors, with a particularly sharp fall among GPs. Most doctors still believe that the national programme is an important priority for the NHS, though levels […]
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