National programme caught in spinal trap
With less than four weeks to go to the first scheduled release from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), highly credible industry sources suggest that the 27 June deadline for P1R1 (phase one release one) of the programme may be missed or only partially met. P1R1 covers the patient demographic service to be made available […]
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Poaching of staff from NHS is a reality
With the NHS in the midst of the largest ever IT investment programme, staff with the right skills and experience are at a premium, but can NHS organisations attract and retain these key staff? And is the gentleman’s no poaching agreement between local service providers and the NHS actually working? At last week’s E-Health Insider […]
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Award for iSOFT SingHealth EMR implementation
Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), the largest healthcare provider in Singapore has received a prestigious award for best of IT to add value to an organisation for its implementation of an iSOFT-based electronic medical record (EMR) system, which has successfully been integrated across all the group’s hospitals. The main application SingHealth has used to develop its […]
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Hunt on for public sector IT tsar
The hunt is on for a person to take on to find the candidate to fill the “most influential role in UK IT", with the Government looking for a new head of e-government to replace the current e-envoy Andrew Pinder when he retires later this summer. This new role a super Government IT Tsar, or […]
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London to start implementation immediately
The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s announcement of the award of a £996m, 10-year contract to BT to act as Local Service Provider (LSP) for the capital. Speaking to E-Health Insider immediately after the announcement of the contract this morning David […]
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National Programme Appoints Regional Directors
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has announced it has completed the appointment of four remaining regional implementation directors, bringing the total to five – one for each of the five geographic ‘clusters’ into which the programme has divided the English NHS. According to the national programme the new regional directors will […]
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