Monaghan Promises IT Procurement Strategy by July
Last week saw the publication of the new NHS IT implementation strategy, ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support’ , as reported first by E-Health Insider. However, many key questions remain to be answered around how the new relationships with suppliers will work, how procurements can be accelerated and how the whole programme can be rapidly delivered. […]
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DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy
This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation strategy, "Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS". Two months ago Sir John Pattison announced at Harrogate that a new national strategy for NHS IT, based on common standards, new investment and a new […]
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Milburn Promises “Large Scale” IT Investment
The Secretary of State Alan Milburn used his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on Friday to give the strongest commitment yet that major additional investment is to be channelled into NHS IT. As part of a wide-ranging speech on NHS modernisation and the challenge facing NHS managers, Milburn told delegates at Harrogate that later […]
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No Funding for IT Development Projects
The Department of Health has failed to secure extra funding for a series of development projects that had been thought vital to demonstrate how the latest generation of information technology could be applied to the NHS. The decision suggests that the Treasury and DH do not believe that a further series of demonstrator projects are […]
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ISOFT Boss Predicts Further Industry Consolidation
One of the key features of the new emerging national strategy on NHS IT will be the selection of preferred suppliers for key systems. Ken Jacobson, European CEO of iSOFT , one of the largest UK-based health IT firms, gave E-Health Insider his perspective on how the supplier market can help the NHS achieve its […]
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Reader’s Feedback – Summary No 1
Though we always say we welcome feedback, E-health Insider has, so far, not published comments from subscribers. Let’s start to put that right this week with some recent comments. Inevitably the Budget and the Wanless Review report published just before it provoked interest. A LIS programme manager e-mailed us in sheer frustration… “Having listened to […]
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Five Booked Admissions ‘Enterprise Communities’ Announced
Five new ‘Enterprise Communities’ have been announced to speed up the introduction of electronic booked admissions into the NHS. The five sites will be supported by £2m of funding. In an address to NHS Booked Admissions Programme staff in Manchester today, health minister John Hutton said: "These new Enterprise Communities are leading the biggest healthcare […]
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DH Presents Blueprint for IT Transformation
A plan for transforming NHS IT is on its way to the Treasury this week. If all goes well, the resources needed to implement its proposals will come on stream in April 2003 and the government wants the new developments in place by the end of 2005. The plan was announced at HC 2002 in […]
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Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records
The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into a national big bang approach that could have disastrous consequences for the health service, leading IT suppliers have warned. Having already accepted that the 2002 target for 35% of NHS trusts to have level three […]
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Information Guidance on Shifting the Balance of Power
Guidance on maintaining or improving information flows and structures during the NHS’s Shifting the Balance of Power programme has been published by the Department of Health. Part of a steady flow of guidance from the DH aimed at smoothing the transition in April to the new NHS structure of strategic health authorities and primary care/hospital […]
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