Ex CfH lead says NPfIT has no engagement
One of the first clinical leads for the National Programme for IT in the NHS has said that the programme has failed becaue of a lack of involvement with clinicians from the outset. Professor Aidan Halligan was appointed to NPfIT in March 2004 as director general for benefits realisation, and given the responsibility for communicating […]
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Richard Jeavons to leave Connecting for Health
Richard Jeavons, Connecting for Health’s head of service implementation is to leave the agency before it implements its key detailed electronic record systems. Two weeks ago at a DH press conference Jeavons said detailed electronic patient record systems would after repeated delays begin to be deployed by the summer. Jeavons, a highly experienced NHS […]
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Halligan speaks out on NHS leadership
Professor Aidan Halligan, a former joint senior responsible officer (SRO) for the National Programme for IT, has said that doctors’ substantial pay rises have made them no happier and what they really need is leadership to help them take advantage of smart processes and enabling technology to improve care. In an interview with the British Journal of […]
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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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Burns steps down as NPfIT implementation lead
Alan Burns, the chief executive of Trent strategic health authority, has stood down as the implementation lead for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) just six months after being appointed. He is the latest in a series of senior experienced NHS leaders and clinicians at the top of the programme to have left early […]
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NPfIT urged to communicate with nurses
The Royal College of Nursing have called for better communication between nursing staff and the National Programme for IT, and have offered to help the programme reach out and talk to them. Sharon Levy, Informatics Adviser at the RCN, speaking at the ‘Practical Steps to Implementation of NPfIT’ conference in London, said that nurses "have to […]
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Halligan will not take up top Irish health job
Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Aidan Halligan, who until recently held the post of joint senior responsible officer (SRO) for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), will no longer take up his position as chief executive designate of the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE). E-Health Insider had learned that Professor Halligan made the decision to […]
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Aidan Halligan to leave NPfIT for top Irish job
Professor Aidan Halligan (right), deputy chief medical officer and joint senior responsible officer of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), is leaving to take up the top post in the Irish health service, it was announced today. Professor Halligan’s departure means that the NPfIT has lost its two most senior clinical leads in less than six months. In […]
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Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT
E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT’s chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book and what the programme really wants from its suppliers.
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Doctors’ support for NPfIT tailing off, says survey
A new survey has revealed that doctors’ support for the aims of the national programme has fallen to 54% from 65% in February, and that the majority of them are still in the dark about its aims. In their biannual poll of doctors, Medix UK asked 400 GPs and 450 hospital doctors about their attitudes to the […]
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