A year in review: LSPs in 2007
EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service providers: Fujitsu, CSC and BT.
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Lord Hunt returns as NHS IT minister
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath is back at the Department of Health and will be taking ministerial responsibility again for NHS information technology after a gap of nearly four years. He replaces Lord Warner who retired last month saying that he wished to spend less time with his ministerial red despatch boxes. Lord Hunt will […]
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Reboot for South
E-Health Insider Editor Jon Hoeksma examines the significance of the decision to replace IDX as the clinical systems provider for the NHS in the South of England.
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Online education used to combat hospital infections
A new internet education service launched this week aims to give health workers in Scotland immediate access to latest information on healthcare associated infections (HAI). Health Minister Andy Kerr said the initiative, provided by NHS Education for Scotland (NES), would help in the fight against HAI by providing frontline NHS staff with knowledge on best […]
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Ex-NHSIA chief comes home again to Wales
Gwyn Thomas, former chief executive of the now-defunct NHS Information Authority, is the new Director of the NHS Wales Informing Healthcare Programme. The general election means that Dr Thomas is not available for interview but he said in the official announcement from the National Public Health Service for Wales: “I look forward to working with […]
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Leaked report criticises NPfIT implementation
A leaked report by the National Programme for IT’s former chief clinical adviser has exposed fault lines at the highest levels of the leadership of the national programme and serious disagreements about the way the programme is being implemented and its lack of engagement with clinicians. According to a report in today’s Financial Times, in […]
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EMIS refuses to sign-up with LSPs
EMIS the largest supplier of GP systems in the UK has announced that it will not sign contracts in their current form with any of Local Service Providers (LSPs) appointed to deliver the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Dr David Stables, medical director of EMIS, told E-Health Insider that EMIS remained “basically very supportive of […]
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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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Budget 2003:Chancellor Stands By Spending Plans
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week reaffirmed public spending plans due to deliver 7.2% growth in NHS spending over the next five years, including unprecedented investment in healthcare IT. Delivering the 2003 Budget, he told the Commons, “We have not been, and will not be, diverted from increasing investment on our health and public services at […]
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Home Office to Consult on Smart ID Cards
The Home Office is to publish proposals to introduce identity cards in the UK, based on smart card technology, with Home Secretary David Blunkett expected to announce a six month public consultation on the proposals. Introducing national ID cards was floated by the Home Office in the aftermath of September 11 as a potential guard […]
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