Connelly: South benefits from no LSP
Director general of informatics Christine Connelly has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS’ new approach in the South will mean faster delivery and greater engagement with frontline staff. Speaking at the Assist conference in Birmingham this morning, Connelly claimed there would be benefits to not having a single local service provider in […]
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Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from 2011 to 2014. In his third annual report on the state of the health service, Nicholson says NHS investment will grow by 11% over the next and final two years of the present comprehensive spending […]
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Three more early adopters for Lorenzo
E-Health Insider has identified an NHS acute trust, a primary care trust and a mental health services trust as the next adopters of Lorenzo regional care.
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Has the bar been dropped so low that the NHS IT programme is now guaranteed to succeed? Asks Jon Hoeksma.
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Bellamy learns from Royal Free
Martin Bellamy has said that lessons learned at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust will inform future system deployments under the National Programme for IT in the NHS. The head of NHS Connecting for Health and director of programme and systems delivery described the acute sector as the “Achilles heel of the national programme.” However, […]
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DH announces ‘app store’ style toolkit
The Department of Health has announced a new toolkit that will allow trusts and other developers to create and share new IT products. The announcement was made by chief information officer for health Christine Connelly, who compared the new toolkit to Apple’s iPhone ‘app store.’ The DH said the tookit will “allow new products to […]
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Connelly sets a November deadline for suppliers
DH CIO Christine Connelly has given NPfIT’s suppliers seven months to make “significant progress” or see a new implementation plan adopted.
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Connelly to open HC2009 in Harrogate
The British Computer Society has confirmed Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy as key speakers at its HC2009 event. Christine Connelly, chief information officer for health, will be opening the three day event, which takes place 28-30 April in Harrogate. Connelly is expected to address health informatics in a broad sense, including how it affects policy […]
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