Bringing CfH into the mainstream
Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at the DH, tells E-Health Insider about his role in pushing IT reform up the local agenda.
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Welsh health IT prepares for delivery
The Welsh NHS IT reform programme, Informing Healthcare (IHC), has just released its National Case document and formally set up a series of Service Improvement Projects to start the process of implementing electronic health records in a number of key areas. The projects will focus on the areas of chronic disease management, unified assessment and […]
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Cerner in line for south contract
In the south of England plans have been drawn up since at least March on the basis that there would be a major change occurring in the supplier line-up for NHS National Programme for IT. These rumours were confirmed today when IDX issued a release to the US market announcing that it had reached an […]
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Comments wanted on Care Record Guarantee
Questions about the content of local health records and summary records and the options patients should have on information recorded about them are still open for debate, a BMA conference heard this week. The conference “Challenges for Doctors in the Digital World” was held the day after the launch of the new Care Record Guarantee […]
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Burns steps down as NPfIT implementation lead
Alan Burns, the chief executive of Trent strategic health authority, has stood down as the implementation lead for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) just six months after being appointed. He is the latest in a series of senior experienced NHS leaders and clinicians at the top of the programme to have left early […]
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Groundhog Day
Connecting for Health’s new strategy to engage with professional associations seems strangely familiar, reports E-Health Insider from the Clinical Information Advisory Groups’ press conference in London.
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Crunch time
How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to say about the major e-health issues.
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Doctors to get say on future of NHS IT
Grassroots doctors are to get the chance to tell the National Programme for IT, now known as NHS Connecting for Health, how they think the programme should go forward on key issues like confidentiality at a BMA conference next month. The conference on May 24, entitled Challenges for Doctors in the Digital World, aims to bring […]
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Hutton departure wounded NPfIT, says researcher
Many difficulties suffered by the National Programme for IT can be traced back to when Professor Peter Hutton resigned as chair of the National Clinical Advisory Board (NCAB), according to research being presented at Healthcare Computing 2005. Matthew Guah, a doctoral researcher for the Operations Research & Informations Warwick Business School, insists that many problems […]
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NPfIT to jettison its name…and some suppliers
The National Programme for IT is to change its name to Connecting for Health, NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced today. Speaking at Healthcare Computing 2005 in Harrogate, Granger explained that Connecting for Health was "what we are about". But the re-branding will not disguise some harsh realities for suppliers to the programme some of […]
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