CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments
NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become a fact of life in the NHS. Answering MPs’ questions about Choose and Book use at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the NHS IT programme, Nicholson said: “Utilisation of the system […]
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’
Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost
An encrypted back-up tape containing the medical records of over 38,000 patients from the Isle of Wight PCT has gone missing in the post. The tape contains medical records of 38,650 current and past patients of the Sandown Health Centre from July 1996 onward, and went missing somewhere between GP systems provider INPS and the […]
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BT boss to take over at King’s College
Tim Smart the current chief executive of BT Global Services UK, the BT division responsible for over £3 billion of NHS IT contracts, is to take over as head of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. BT is the local service provider to London, responsible for delivering IT upgrades to NHS organisations across the capital […]
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NHS chief execs may be accountable for data loss
The Information Commissioner has backed proposals by cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell to hold senior Whitehall figures and NHS chief executives personally responsible if their department or trust loses or mishandles personal information. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London last Tuesday, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said he has seen a draft of O’Donnell’s report […]
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Most GP systems will require security upgrades
The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer and storage of patient data and PCTs will need to fund the costs of extra encryption, according to Connecting for Health. CfH’s programme director for GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC), Kemi Adenubi, has written to […]
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Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication
The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position with consultancy firm Tribal. The news comes ahead of publication of the Swindells review of NHS Informatics, which was expected to contain criticism of the overall strategic management of information in the NHS. A former […]
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NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years
The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to lengthy delays in the delivery of the detailed local electronic patient records at the centre of the project. By March 2007 the programme had spent a total of £2.4bn, against an original forecast spend of […]
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NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’
NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a health service based on plurality and far more locally-based decision making by clinicians and patients. Speaking at the World Healthcare Congress in Berlin on Monday Nicholson explained why the introuduction of the NHS National Programme for […]
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