New NHS email system switched on
The new NHS email system, Contact, has belatedly gone live after the abortive launch two weeks ago – but early indications from some E-Health Insider readers suggest that some significant teething problems remain with the new Cable & Wireless provided ‘Contact’ system. One NHS IT manager wrote to E-Health Insider this week providing his anonymous […]
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BT awarded NHS broadband contract
BT has won the N3 (New National Network) contract to provide and manage a broadband network to link all NHS organisations in England, health minister, John Hutton, announced today. As had been widely anticipated, BT was chosen ahead Cable and Wireless for the N3 contract, which will see it act as integrator, rather than as a broadband service provider iteself. […]
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EDS pulls out of bidding for N3 contract
EDS has pulled out of the bidding for the N3 contract to provide the NHS with a new broadband network that will underpin the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) project to modernise NHS IT systems. The N3 network will be vital to the success of the central electronic patient record, the NHS Care Records Service, […]
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