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Nick Timmins, public policy editor of the Financial Times, argues that the NHS has to succeed in digitisatising if it is to last another 60 years.
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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NHS Tayside launches video GP trial
NHS Tayside patients are the first to be able to use an out-of-hours GP video link to communicate with nurses or emergency practitioners for help with minor illnesses or injuries. Patients currently attending the out-of-hours service in a minor illness and injury unit in Perth & Kinross will be seen by a nurse or emergency […]
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Tories would end projects like NHS ‘supercomputer’
Conservative party leader, David Cameron promised today that if his party was elected there would be no more IT projects “like Labour’s hubristic NHS supercomputer”. Addressing the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts in London yesterday, Cameron attacked the Labour Party’s commitment to large scale, centralised systems. “The basic reason for the problems [in […]
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Conservatives hold review of NHS IT
The Conservative party has confirmed it is currently undertaking an independent review of the National Programme for IT. Shadow health minister, Stephen O’Brien, had initially announced in an opposition debate last June: “If the government do not agree to a full and independent review as a result of our call, we will, as a matter […]
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Harrogate deploy asset management software
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has implemented new asset management software to provide a single asset register better track and manage its equipment, including IT hardware and software. The trust will also use the software, supplied by Real Asset Management, to help improve helpdesk services and audits of its 13,000 resources. John Brewster, capital […]
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NPfIT ‘pushed the NHS into disarray’ say Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats have labelled the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) as a waste of money which ‘has pushed the NHS into disarray’. Setting out his vision for the NHS, in policy paper, ‘Empowerment, Fairness and Quality in Healthcare’, Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, says that NPfIT and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) have […]
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Cameron says NHS IT must be local
Conservative party leader David Cameron has attacked the NHS IT programme and called for local ownership and innovation. In a keynote speech at Trafford General Hospital to mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the opposition leader called for local NHS organisations to be allowed to innovate. He singled out the IT team at Trafford […]
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Health records a target for ‘the wicked’
Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service implementation at Connecting for Health has admitted to the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the NHS Care Records Service database is open to misuse by “the wicked”. Given evidence to the committee, as part of their inquiry into ‘A Surveillance Society’, Jeavons, who is also director of IT […]
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for the health secretary by […]
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