NPfIT scrutinised by Public Accounts Committee
The Public Accounts Committee hearing into the NHS National Programme for IT yesterday heard that the £12.4bn programme is largely on track, apart from its central component, the NHS Care Records Service, which is intended to deliver rich local clinical systems and a national database of summary records. Just 12 acute trusts have so far received […]
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CfH accused of ‘sham’ on clinical consultation
Perhaps the most unexpected part of the Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the National Programme for IT this week was the appearance of two senior figures from the programme’s early days – Dr Anthony Nowlan and Professor Peter Hutton – who came back to haunt the proceedings with accusations about lack of clinical engagement. Professor Hutton, a distinguished […]
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Press gang
Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross gives his perspective.
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Healthy optimism?
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT’s progress, and how far it covers clinicians’ concerns.
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Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together
The pace of delivery of new IT systems to the hospital sector has been "disappointing", says NHS IT director general Richard Granger NHS IT director but he says the bricks that will build a digital NHS are slowly coming together. In an interview given to E-Health Insider in the run-up to the publication of the NAO report […]
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East Lancs NHS trust tells Granger of costs of delays
The director of finance at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has written to the head of the NHS Connecting for Health to set out his trust’s concerns about the cost of repeated delays in the delivery of a new patient administration system by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The finance director points out local trusts have […]
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Cerner predicted to replace GE in London
An analyst report from the US has said that there is a high probability that clinical software firm Cerner will replace GE Healthcare as main the supplier of clinical systems to the NHS in London. If a change does occur it is likely to initially result in further delivery delays to modernising NHS IT systems […]
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Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT
NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the investments needed to make it work. He also asserted said that the £6.2 billion investment programme will remain a top priority, irrespective of the financial crisis facing some parts of the health service. The upbeat […]
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Innovation loss a cost in large contracts
The head of GE Healthcare Health Information Management in Europe has said that the decision to award contracts for England’s NHS National Programme for IT to just a handful of clinical software providers will prove to be at the expense of competition and innovation. Speaking on an industry panel at last week’s European Commission eHealth […]
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BT’s CEO backs NHS IT boss
The chief executive of UK telecomms giant BT has lent his support to Richard Granger, the head of NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for delivering the £6.2 billion programme to digitise the NHS and create a national system of electronic patient records. In an interview with the Sunday Times Ben Verwaayen firmly backed […]
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