Warner rejects call for CfH architecture review
Health minister Lord Warner has rejected calls from leading computer academics for an independent review of the technical architecture of the NHS national programme for IT. Speaking at a conference in London yesterday he said: "…I do not support at the call by 23 academics to the House of Commons Health Select Committee to commission […]
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Granger compares BMA to the National Union of Miners
NHS IT boss Richard Granger has compared the British Medical Association to the National Union of Mineworkers, describing the influential doctors’ trade union as a block to change in the NHS. His inflamatory comments came in a New Statesman-sponsored round table on IT modernisation, in which he spoke of obstacles to the late-running £12bn NHS IT project: […]
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Opening the book
What does the industry think of the proposed CfH supplier catalogue? E-Health Insider gauges the response.
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Granger says he wants ‘catalogue’ of additional suppliers
The boss of the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health (CfH) has said that he intends to create a catalogue of suppliers able to provide additional capacity and systems to help deliver the late-running £6bn National Programme for NHS IT. The intention appears to be to increase capacity and plug gaps in key specialist systems, […]
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CSC wins £1.9bn contract for North-east and Eastern
Computer Sciences Corporation has been awarded a nine-year contract to take over responsibility for Accenture’s North-east and Eastern regions of the £12bn NHS National Programme for IT. Accenture will continue only as the provider of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in the two regions. The consultancy firm will transfer all its other local service […]
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BCS ‘has not changed mind’ about CfH review
The British Computer Society has denied changing its tack by backing the growing calls for a technical review of the health service’s £12.4bn IT programme. Glyn Hayes, chair of the society’s Health Informatics Forum, has defended his position following a report in this week’s Computer Weekly, which detailed a private email from Dr Hayes to […]
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Waiting for Lorenzo
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma provides at a detailed look a confidential report into iSoft’s development of Lorenzo.
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MP calls for clarity on payments to iSoft
Following yesterday’s suspension of iSoft co-founder, Steve Graham, pending investigation of possible accounting irregularities, Richard Bacon MP, has called for the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, to confirm whether advance payments were made to iSoft under the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The Conservative MP, a leading member of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee […]
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London supplier switch looks closer
A number of well-placed sources told E-Health Insider this week that GE Healthcare had entered into a 90-day consultation with its IDX staff in the UK on Monday (24 July). Ninety days is the minimum consultation period between employers and employees if 100 or more employees may be dismissed as redundant at one establishment within a […]
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MP quizzes Blair on national programme money
An opposition MP has asked for Prime Minister Tony Blair’s personal assurance that public money has not been given to companies involved in the National Programme for IT that have not delivered, naming iSoft as an example. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Question Time, Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, said: “Would the Prime Minister […]
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