London looks for new deal with Microsoft
Chief information officers and IT directors in London are hoping to explore a capital-wide deal with Microsoft following the termination of the company’s Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS. Sources have told E-Health Insider that at a general meeting in London last week there was a “huge amount of disgruntlement” about the decision not to renew […]
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DH looks to IT suppliers for savings
Health minister Simon Burns has said that the Department of Health is targeting ICT products and services worth £6m in order to make reductions in public expenditure.
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Treasury frets about GP commissioning
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted that the Treasury is concerned abut the government’s plans to hand secondary care commissioning to GPs. Responding to a question at the end of the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Loverpool, Sir David said he was also acutely aware of the need to keep financial control in the NHS […]
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Intellect: ‘cuts mean IT investment’
The chair of Intellect’s Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider he expects increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings that need to be made by the NHS.
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Lansley: ‘NHS not protected from change’
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned the NHS it cannot expect the funding increases it has enjoyed in the recent past and it will not be protected from change.
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Public spending hit in grim Budget
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that lower public spending will form the bulk of the government’s action to reduce Britain’s budget deficit.
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NHS ordered to halve management costs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at least £222m in management costs this year.
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NHS Direct pilots home working
NHS Direct is to consider allowing a large number of its staff to work from home, if a pilot shows positive results. The telephone and web advice service has already closed one of its sites in Portsmouth in order to allow staff to work from home. The organisation, which employs more than 3,000 people across the […]
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EPR cuts Middlesex GUM treatment times
Researchers at Central Middlesex Hospital have found that the implementation of an electronic patient record system in the genito-urinary medicine clinic has lead to an impressive improvement in treatment times.
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Ovum: coalition will challenge NHS IT
Industry analyst Ovum has said that a hung parliament could hamper the drive for change in the NHS, but may lead to greater IT interoperability and more local ways of working.
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