Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi
NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11, when the health service’s three year settlement comes to an end. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, announced by the Department of Health yesterday but only released onto its website this morning, […]
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Hard Times?
What does this week’s pre-budget report mean for the NHS and its IT? Fiona Barr investigates.
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Pre-budget report targets NHS efficiency savings
Billions of pounds of extra efficiency savings are to be required from public sector organisations, including the NHS, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced yesterday. The savings form part of the emergency measures set out in the pre-budget report designed to kick-start the British economy, which is predicted to be heading into a deep recession. Government borrowing will […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists
BT to axe 10,000 jobs
BT has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs across the whole company, including its BT Global Services division, which is responsible for three key English NHS IT contracts. The job cuts, amounting to 6% of the total workforce, will be spread across the BT Group. Six thousand will be “agency staff, sub-contractors and offshore […]
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Royal Free says £7.2m deficit due to Cerner
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has reported a £7.2 m deficit due mainly to problems with the Cerner Millennium Care Records System.
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BT Global Services to cut costs
A profit warning from BT Global Services, the arm of the company responsible for delivering key NHS IT contracts, has sent shares in the telecoms giant crashing to a 20-year low. While other divisions performed as expected, BT Global Services was said to be a “dissapointing” £120m behind expectations. BT’s chief executive Ian Livingston promised […]
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Vocera cuts Liverpool theatre delays
An NHS trust in Liverpool is using Vocera to improve communications between ward and theatre staff; helping them to work more efficiently and make better use of operating time.
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Standards set for the structure of medical records
Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed for the first time.
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