What’s going on, Darling?
NPfIT was going to be scrapped. Then it wasn’t. Sarah Bruce reports on Pre-Budget Report chaos.
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NHS IT programme faces cuts
Parts of the multibillion-pound national NHS IT progamme could be cancelled in this week’s Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor has warned.
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Kelsey – info should be compulsory
GPs and all other NHS providers should be mandated to publish routine, standardised data on their outcomes, according to the chairman of health information firm Dr Foster. Tim Kelsey told E-Health Insider Live ’09 that only English hospitals currently publish outcomes data and the next government should ‘force the pace.’ He said a future government […]
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No easy wins
Tories promise records for all
Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party’s priorities for health, according to plans published today. The party said it would carry out a full consultation on how to move to patient-held records with a view to introducing them throughout the NHS. In a speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, party leader David Cameron said […]
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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative Party conference. Lansley gave few details of where his £1.5 billion of savings would come from, although he attacked commissioning bodies, NHS quangos and “political” targets as examples of Labour profligacy. He claimed that switching […]
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Survey gives boost to HealthSpace
E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk survey shows strong backing for HealthSpace and none at all for commercial alternatives.
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Readers back reformed NPfIT
The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk has concluded.
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EHI and doctors.net take pulse of NHS IT
NHS IT and alternatives to some or all of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have broken into the non-specialist press in recent weeks. First, papers speculated that the Conservative Party might be planning to tear up the National Programme for IT in the NHS and to let people use personal health record platforms […]
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Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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