Single info governance board plans unveiled
Full details of the cost and role of the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care were published this week following the introduction of the Health and Social Care Bill to the House of Commons. The bill confirms that the new board will have responsibility for the NHS Care Record Guarantee for […]
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Granger’s successor remains a mystery
Richard Granger’s successor as chief executive of Connecting for Health and director general of IT at the Department of Health is still unknown, twelve weeks after he announced his resignation in transition from the post. Enquiries from E-Health Insider this week have been unable to clarify when Granger will officially leave CfH, and more intriguingly […]
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Patientline hits trouble as losses grow
Patientline, the hospital entertainment and phone provider, has announced that it is in urgent talks with its banks to renegotiate its debt payments so that it can invest in new technology and cut the prices it charges. The company has posted growing full-year losses together with reduced revenues. Half-year revenues shrunk from £25.1m in 2006, […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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Information Governance will be ongoing challenge
Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the information governance challenge for shared records and use of patient data in an electronic NHS would be an ongoing challenge for the coming decade, in the same way that getting clinical governance right had been the challenge of the previous decade. Quizzed about privacy […]
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iSoft says takeover talks “well advanced”
iSoft announced late on Friday that it is in "well advanced" takeover talks with "several parties", and expects to be able to make a statement soon. The company responsible for delivering new software systems to 60% of the English NHS said that discussions with potential buyers had taken longer than expected, due to concerns over its role […]
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Granger says ‘consultation’ led to records delays
Richard Granger, the director general of IT for the NHS today (26 April) told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that he blames the two year delay in delivery the electronic patient record system at the heart of the NHS IT programme on ‘consultations’ taking longer than anticipated He said: “Some aspects have been delayed by […]
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Ipswich installs first national programme iCM
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust to receive an iSoft iCM clinical system under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) after local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation deployed the system with the iPM patient administration system (PAS) last weekend. As well as the Ipswich deployment, CSC also implemented an iPM PAS in […]
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PAC report brings brickbats and bouquets for NPfIT
Mixed reaction greeted the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s report on the National Programme for IT with critics and supporters dividing on predictable lines and the NHS Confederation saying the programme must be made to work, despite its problems. Health minister Lord Hunt, claimed the evidence taken to produce the report was outdated. “This PAC […]
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PAC says NPfIT suppliers are ‘struggling to deliver’
A damning new report by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) questions the basic business case behind and contracts awarded for England’s £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. The report focuses on the lack of progress on implementing electronic patient records which it says "suppliers are struggling to deliver" and calls for […]
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