BT awarded NHS broadband contract
BT has won the N3 (New National Network) contract to provide and manage a broadband network to link all NHS organisations in England, health minister, John Hutton, announced today. As had been widely anticipated, BT was chosen ahead Cable and Wireless for the N3 contract, which will see it act as integrator, rather than as a broadband service provider iteself. […]
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IDX chooses SeeBeyond to integrate UCLH
IDX Systems Corporation UK, has chosen SeeBeyond’s eGate product to provide the integration platform for the comprehensive electronic patient care record system it is installing at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH). The announcement comes a week after BT awarded SeeBeyond a £16 million seven-year contract to provide the core software for the transactional messaging service for […]
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Fujitsu presents its LSP line-up
Fujitsu Services has provided further details of the members of its Local Service Provider (LSP) consortia line-up, following Monday’s announcement that it had been awarded the LSP contract for the South of England. The team, known as the Fujitsu Alliance, comprises Fujitsu as prime contractor; IDX Systems Corporation for the core clinical application; Tata Consultancy […]
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South awarded to Fujitsu
The Fujitsu Alliance has been awarded the final Local Service Provider (LSP) contract for the South of England to deliver the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)in England. The contract for £896 million, due to run until 2013, was announced today by health secretary, John Reid. The Fujitsu Alliance, offering IDX as its […]
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Two LSP contracts announced, South delayed until 2004
The National Programme for IT this morning announced that CSC and Accenture are the winners of two of the three remaining local service provider (LSP) contracts, worth a total of £1,907m. The award of the final LSP contract, for the South of England, has been put back to January 2004 for unspecified reasons. A National […]
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Granger secures commitment to fund NPfIT
Comment: Jon Hoeksma, E-Health Insider For Richard Granger, NHS IT Director-General, the announcement of the award of three key contracts to deliver the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), provides a vindication of his management of the procurement phase of the programme and hardball negotiation tactics with suppliers on pricing. Although the extra £2.3 billion pledged […]
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Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards
A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts about to be awarded by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with two more going to iSoft, and one to IDX. Overall the 11 November SunTrust Robinson Humphrey document, suggests that […]
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Patient First Alliance no longer in National Programme
With barely a month to go before the first Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts are awarded Patient First Alliance (PFA) have been disqualified from the procurement competitions in the North West and North East, after failing to meet a Monday deadline to clarify their position. Their elimination leaves LSP consortia led by Cerner and Accenture […]
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Granger says firms will sign up to terms and conditions
NHS IT Director General Richard Granger, has rejected claims that the terms and conditions included in contracts for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are too onerous for bidders to sign up to, and stated that he is convinced firms will sign up to the arrangements. The most compelling evidence of this claim was […]
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National Programme to sign first contract
Tomorrow morning Secretary of State for Health John Reid and NHS IT director-general Richard Granger will announce that SchlumbergerSema offering a Cerner solution have been awarded the electronic appointment booking contract for the NHS. E-booking will be the first major supplier contract for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to be let. As previously reported […]
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