Primary care inspires review
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly
A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to “bailing out the banks”. With the addition of BT’s National Application Service Provider deal for the NHS Spine the total value of contracts to be renegotiated rises to £5 billion. Mike Davis, senior analyst at […]
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT
The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour’s central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited patient record and clinical systems.
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Davis: Google hits back
Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative Party’s reported plans to hand over medical records to the search giant. In a lively post on his European Public Policy Blog, Peter Fleischer said Google had been “surprised and disappointed” to read Davis’ “vitriolic” […]
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’
Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.” Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.” “The policy described was so naïve, […]
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Vaulting ambition
The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they doing in the US?
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Interim flu line for 100,000 cases a day
The Department of Health’s interim flu line service is expected to be operational by next week, as the government predicts 100,000 swine flu cases a day by the end of August. The interim arrangements for the flu line, which has had its name changed to the National Pandemic Flu Service, have been put in place […]
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Tories may offer private record stores
Patients may be given the option to transfer their health records to Google or Microsoft personal health record platforms under a Conservative government. According to newspaper reports, patients may be given the option of moving their medical notes to services provided by private companies, such as the US technology giants. Both technology firms have been […]
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Scrap big government IT: think tank
A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead to savings of 50% on government IT expenditure. A paper published by the Centre for Policy Studies – It’s ours. Why we, not the government own our data – dismisses the government’s Transformational Government strategy […]
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