Granger Confirms Centre to Allocate LSP Contracts
With the shortlist for LSPs announced this week, barely a year after the procurement process for the NPfIT began, Richard Granger, NHS IT director-general, has reiterated that the final decision on LSP contract awards will be made centrally. In an interview with E-Health Insider, Mr Granger, confirmed that the decisions on award of the five […]
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LSP Clusters Shortlist Announced
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has announced its shortlist of Local Service Providers (LSPs) selected to compete for five contracts to carry out the government’s £2.3 billion transformation of health service IT in England. The same announcement also officially confirmed the three shortlisted bidders for the contract to be the National […]
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Record Turnout for SW Informatics Network
A record turnout for the NHS South West Informatics Learning Network’s annual conference was attributed by organisers to a rising general level of interest in NHS IT – and an understandable curiosity about future plans for the region following the cancellation of the Shires and Pan Bristol electronic records procurements. The cancellations, reported in May, […]
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Granger Tells NHS Boards to Take on IT
A sign of the times was provided last week when it was standing room only at the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Glasgow to hear NHS IT Director Richard Granger give details of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS. Speaking at his third major conference in as many weeks Mr Granger said […]
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ETP Pilots Ended for 5,000 Patients
The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health (DoH), without a clear plan of how ETP will be taken forward. More than 5,000 patients who had been benefiting from the service will now have to switch back to physically collecting their prescriptions. ETP […]
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Granger: Rip and Replace Fears Unfounded
Fears of a wholesale rip and replace strategy to update NHS IT are unfounded and existing ‘legacy’ systems will continue to be vital, NHS IT boss Richard Granger told the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Special Interest Group (PHCSIG) conference this week. In a well received speech the Director General of NHS IT told […]
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Granger says Failure will be Penalised
NHS IT Director General Richard Granger this week raised the ante for would-be suppliers to the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS, making clear that penalty clauses would be invoked and damages sought from suppliers that fail to deliver. Speaking at Kable’s Government Computing conference in London on 12 June, Mr Granger stressed […]
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Time to Get More Involved With NPfIT, Granger Tells Staff
Richard Granger, Director General of NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) last week told NHS IT professionals that the time had come for them to be more involved in the National Programme, which he argued would offer opportunities for them to “move from the machine room to the board room”. In his speech at last […]
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say 2
Our first batch of readers’ comments on the National Programme for IT in the NHS brought some interesting replies. The discussion started after IT tsar Richard Granger asked, in the course of his speech at HC2003, whether there were any alternatives to the direction of travel set by the National Programme. Our first correspondent took […]
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say
At HC2003 NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said that he wanted a debate about whether there were viable alternatives to the direction of travel set out by the National Programme. Though he made clear that he believed the route set out was the best way to ensure delivery, he added it was not too late […]
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