Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks
A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are under to deliver short-terms risks the wider aims of the NHS National Programme for IT systems, resulting in a danger of it delivering “a camel, and not the racehorse that we might try to produce.” […]
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New Eclipse MIS will support major research
A new Eclipse maternity information system delivered by Huntleigh Healthcare has been customised to support Born in Bradford – a large study that will track the progress of more than 10,000 babies from pregnancy to adulthood. The maternity information system (MIS) went live in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of January. EHI […]
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Minister responsible for NPfIT to retire
Lord Warner the health minister responsible for the £12.4bn NHS IT project is to retire at the end of the year. No 10 has announced that the Labour peer will retire at the end of the year, in what was described as a "personal decision". The BBC reported that Downing Street had denied that his departure […]
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Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT
A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of medical opinion on IT modernisation, sponsored by E-Health Insider. One of the key findings of the survey is that half of all GPs surveyed said they do not plan to upload patient details onto the […]
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IT workers on strike in NHS Logistics dispute
The NHS Logistics strike today is set to include at least 500 helpdesk staff who are crucial to getting orders sent quickly, UNISON has told E-Health Insider. The government intends to outsource NHS Logistics and part of the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency to parcel couriers DHL in a deal worth £3.7 billion a year, […]
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Press reports question future roles of iSoft and Accenture
Weekend press reports raised further questions over the future shape of the NHS National Programme for IT and the long term involvement of key software contractor iSoft, together with raising questions over the future involvement of consulting giant Accenture. The Department of Health has said that the NHS IT programme is not in jeopardy or […]
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NPfIT scrutinised by Public Accounts Committee
The Public Accounts Committee hearing into the NHS National Programme for IT yesterday heard that the £12.4bn programme is largely on track, apart from its central component, the NHS Care Records Service, which is intended to deliver rich local clinical systems and a national database of summary records. Just 12 acute trusts have so far received […]
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MPs call for review of NHS IT programme costs
Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat MP for Westmoreland & Lonsdale, has stepped up his campaign for an independent review of the costing on the National Programme for IT. Farron, who earlier last month initiated an early day motion asking for a full, independent investigation of NPfIT’s finances, told Parliament that he believed the level of spending […]
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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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Crunch time
How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to say about the major e-health issues.
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