Review: Plundering the Public Sector
Michael Cross reviews David Craig’s latest book which concentrates on the role of consultants in the National Programme for IT.
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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact
NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact, the web-based e-mail service it procured for the health service at a total cost of up to £90m. At Healthcare Computing 2006 last month CfH chief executive Richard Granger castigated NHS trusts for not fully […]
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Unstoppable momentum in e-health rollout, says Granger
Connecting for Health has reached an unstoppable momentum and "essentially the war is won", chief executive Richard Granger has told a conference in Australia. He is quoted in The Australian newspaper as saying that patients are already benefiting from the programme and that deployment was well underway. "The real revolution is in patients being able […]
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No pleasure in Accenture losses, says Granger
Richard Granger, NHS director-general of IT, jokingly told conference delegates today that the $450m losses one of his prime contractors, Accenture, announced this week against its National Programme for IT contracts would be sufficient for the firm to hire “every Bulgarian hit man to take me out”. Speaking at the World Health Congress, Paris, he said that […]
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Granger tells NHS to be proud of progress
Multinational giant, GE Healthcare, has earned praise from the NHS IT director-general for its rapid progress in deploying picture archiving and communication systems – and a reminder that it now needs to pull off the same sort of performance in London with its newly-acquired clinical solutions provider IDX. Speaking at Healthcare Computing 2006, Richard Granger […]
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Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs
The two most senior GP representatives in England have written to Connecting for Health to demand reassurances on patient confidentiality after it emerged that non-clinical staff can access and change patient details held on the personal demographics service. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee and Dr Mayur Lakhani, chairman […]
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CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider reorganisation in the Department of Health. An announcement from CfH, which is currently designated as an agency of the Department of Health, says that the precise nature of the organisation and of the associated governance […]
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NHS signs enterprise deal with Novell
NHS Connecting for Health has negotiated a £21.8m deal with infrastructure and software services supplier Novell, which it claims will make it easier for the NHS to use open source products and software. According to Novell the deal covers three main areas – identity products, desktop management and the ability for the NHS to make […]
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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ETP potential
EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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