Lansley: LSP contracts may be abandoned
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider contracts that are part of The National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Lansley may abandon LSP contracts
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider contracts that are part of The National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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What’s going on, Darling?
NPfIT was going to be scrapped. Then it wasn’t. Sarah Bruce reports on Pre-Budget Report chaos.
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NHS IT programme faces cuts
Parts of the multibillion-pound national NHS IT progamme could be cancelled in this week’s Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor has warned.
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Tories promise records for all
Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party’s priorities for health, according to plans published today. The party said it would carry out a full consultation on how to move to patient-held records with a view to introducing them throughout the NHS. In a speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, party leader David Cameron said […]
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NHS staff admit to being DNAs
A survey of health professionals attending an NHS Alliance event found that three out of ten have missed a medical appointment. The survey of 100 people by In4Health, which delivers news and information services to screens in NHS waiting rooms, found that five admitted missing "a shocking" five appointments. The NHS Information Centre estimates that did not attends […]
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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative Party conference. Lansley gave few details of where his £1.5 billion of savings would come from, although he attacked commissioning bodies, NHS quangos and “political” targets as examples of Labour profligacy. He claimed that switching […]
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Two Scottish NHS bodies rapped by ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office has told two different Scottish NHS bodies they must tighten data security after a series of data breaches. In one incident, a senior nursing manager in NHS Grampian inappropriately emailed 50 staff with sensitive personal details relating to a patient. In another incident, NHS Education for Scotland had a laptop containing […]
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Arctic blast
A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will mean for healthcare IT.
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Primary care inspires review
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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