Misleading the PAC ‘very serious’- Bacon
A member of the Public Accounts Committee is looking at whether the Department of Health provided it with misleading information about the release of a final benefits statement on NPfIT.
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DH reveals final NPfIT benefits
The Department of Health released its final report on the benefits of NPfIT in June, six days before it told the Public Accounts Committee that it would not be available until September.
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Joe’s view of pushing rocks
As chair of the CCIO Leaders Network, Joe McDonald is getting a lot of calls for clinical engagement on national projects. A better way is needed, grounded in a national clinical engagement strategy.
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HSCIC green lights Lorenzo
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has been given the go-ahead to purchase Lorenzo by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Trusts meet PACS exit deadline
England’s PACS transition programme was due to hit its first big deadline yesterday, with the successful exit of 84 trusts from their national picture archiving and communications system contracts.
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Social care data in HSCIC sights
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is looking at automating extractions of adult social care data from council IT systems and linking it with other healthcare data.
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Group to investigate dose info demands
A stakeholder group is to be convened to identify the information about radiation doses that trusts need to gather automatically, UKRC heard.
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98 per cent of NPfIT benefits unrealised
Ninety-eight per cent of the estimated benefits of several high-profile National Programme for IT programmes are yet to be realised, according to the National Audit Office.
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GPSoC tender worth £1.2 billion
The Department of Health has tendered for a new GP Systems of Choice framework worth up to £1.2 billion over two years.
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Central gov signs-off £32m business case
A £32m business case to provide nine southern community and child health providers with TPP’s SystmOne has been signed off by the government.
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