Capita wins quality mark contract
The Department of Health has appointed Capita to manage the Information Standard accreditation scheme that is due to be launched later this summer. The contract is the second big information win for Capita in the past year. Last July, the outsourcing specialist won the contract to run NHS Choices for three years, taking over from […]
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CHKS acquired by Capita for £11.6m
UK healthcare intelligence specialist CHKS has been bought by outsourcing specialist Capita Group Plc for £11.6m. CHKS specialises in providing data, coding and performance analysis services to NHS organisations. The sale was made by CHKS parent Healthcare Knowledge International, a European benchmarking performance and analysis information provider. In the financial year to 31 December 2008 […]
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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Leicester chooses McKesson for payroll
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has chosen McKesson as its payroll provider. The company will take over payroll at the trust and four others within a local payroll consortium in February next year. The move follows a series of problems with the trusts’ former payroll provider, Capita, which included late and incomplete payments an […]
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NHS work boosts Atos Origin
International IT services company Atos Origin has reported strong UK financial results for the first six months of the year, partly boosted by NHS work. The company, which is responsible for the Choose and Book electronic appointment system, reported revenues up to £376m for the first half of the year. In England, Atos Origin has […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.
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No pleasure in Accenture losses, says Granger
Richard Granger, NHS director-general of IT, jokingly told conference delegates today that the $450m losses one of his prime contractors, Accenture, announced this week against its National Programme for IT contracts would be sufficient for the firm to hire “every Bulgarian hit man to take me out”. Speaking at the World Health Congress, Paris, he said that […]
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National Programme Names LSP and NASP Candidates
The National Programme for IT in the NHS has announced a “longlist” of 31 individual firms and consortia who have won through the first stage of tendering to be Local Service Providers (LSPs) and National Application Service Providers (NASPs) for the programme. The announcement said that 27 candidates had qualified for further consideration for the […]
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WHO Extends Low Cost Access to Medical Journals
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has added 43 new countries to its the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) this week, giving them cut price online access to 2,200 high-quality medical journals. All of the 43 countries added to the initiative have gross national products per capita of between $1,000-$3,000. They join the 69 […]
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