Hunt predicts US-UK ‘single market’
A memorandum of understanding signed by the US and UK will help to create the world’s largest single market for health care applications, the health secretary has said.
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Ministers support CCIO 12-point plan
Ministers have issued a warm message of support in response to the a new Vision and 12-point plan for chief clinical information officers, issued by the CCIO Leaders Network.
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Fitness app starts with bomb attack
An app funded by the Department of Health has been launched that encourages people to walk themselves fit by fleeing a fictional bomb attack.
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ESR tender worth £200m – £400m
New working party on dose monitoring
DH finalises CSC deal
CSC and the Department of Health have signed a revised contract for the North, Midlands and East that the DH says will save the NHS another £22m.
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DH says it did not mislead the PAC
The Department of Health says it did not mislead the Public Accounts Committee about the publication of the final benefits statement on the National Programme for IT.
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PAC doubts DH can deliver paperless NHS
The Department of Health has come in for stinging criticism for the way it handled NPfIT contracts from Parliament’s spending watchdog, which has also cast doubt on its ability to deliver a ‘paperless’ NHS by 2018.
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£600m in LPfIT costs post 2011
More than half of the estimated £1.2 billion cost of the London Programme for IT is being paid out after March 2011, six months after the national programme was officially axed.
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DH gets ready to tender ESR
The Department of Health has taken the first step towards re-tendering the Electronic Staff Record that is used across the NHS in England and Wales.
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