Engage or risk failure, BMA IT chief tells NPfIT
Dr John Powell, chair of the British Medical Association’s IT committee, has issued a fresh call to the National Programme for IT to engage with healthcare professionals or risk another public sector IT failure. Speaking at the IBC Informa ‘eHealth: Transforming healthcare access and delivery’ conference in London yesterday, Dr Powell said: "We need to learn […]
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Mencap chief exec joins care record board
Jo Williams, chief executive of Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, has joined the National Programme for IT’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB) as its social care deputy chair. Williams (right) said she was very pleased to be appointed and to be working with CRDB chair, Harry Cayton, for whom she said she had the […]
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Life outside NPfIT: Wales
In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the Informing Healthcare programme.
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NPfIT: engagement on electronic referrals will wait
National engagement over electronic referrals will only come “when the time is right", namely when the system is fully operational, a spokesperson from the National Programme for IT told a conference in London. Claire Mitchell, group programme director for Booking & Choice at the national programme, told delegates at Clinical Information Systems and Electronic Records and e-Health […]
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End 2005 will see NPfIT making a difference for all
National Programme for IT’s (NPfIT) director-general, Richard Granger has predicted that by the end of next year there won’t be a ‘nook or cranny’ of the NHS in England that has not seen some work from the programme that will be making a difference to caring for patients. Speaking to a briefing ahead of the Clinical Information […]
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Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT
E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT’s chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book and what the programme really wants from its suppliers.
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Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern
Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the five National Programme for IT (NPfIT) clusters, it now seems certain that contracts for at least two clusters will now be awarded to Agfa rather than GE Medical Systems as originally thought. An NPfIT spokesperson […]
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Doctors’ support for NPfIT tailing off, says survey
A new survey has revealed that doctors’ support for the aims of the national programme has fallen to 54% from 65% in February, and that the majority of them are still in the dark about its aims. In their biannual poll of doctors, Medix UK asked 400 GPs and 450 hospital doctors about their attitudes to the […]
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NPfIT enlists help with IT industry communication
The NHS National Programme for IT has recruited external help to improve communication with its IT suppliers by awarding a contract to IT consulting company Ovum to provide industry liaison. Ovum, an international IT advisory, support and market intelligence agency, will be responsible for “liaison services across the IT healthcare industry working with National Programme managers […]
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Patient and clinical advisory boards to be replaced
A new Care Record Development Board (CRDB) is to be created to help ensure NHS IT helps deliver better patient care. The new body will replace the National Programme for IT’s Patient Advisory Board (PAB) and National Clinical Advisory Board (NCAB). The CRDB will be chaired by Harry Clayton the Department of Health’s director for […]
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