Information Centre wins in ALB review
The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.
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GP consortia to start work this year
The Department of Health has spelled out its plans for the future of commissioning in a consultation that gives the NHS Commissioning Board a role in setting data and IT standards while predicting that a market will develop in commissioning support.
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Goals replace targets in DH paper
The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets – and to hold the NHS to account using ‘national outcome goals’.
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Consortia will look to private sector IT
GP consortia are likely to look to the independent sector to meet their IT and information needs for commissioning, according to the NHS Alliance.
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Lorenzo to be developed until 2012
ISoft has announced that it will continue to develop its Lorenzo electronic patient record software under the National Programme for IT in the NHS until September 2012.
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EMIS ‘well placed’ for white paper world
Healthcare IT supplier EMIS has announced that it is trading is in line with expectations, with a £300,000 rise in turnover for the first six months of the year to £29.02m. The company said it continues to focus on its next generation system EMIS Web and that ‘first of type’ testing was on track for […]
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‘Large numbers’ of staff to lose jobs
The Department of Health’s informatics directorate is one of the few areas of the NHS that is safe from change for the moment, a letter from NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned.
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Lansley leads information revolution
The new NHS white paper promises an information strategy for the NHS this autumn, but a report from the National Quality Board provides clues to its content.
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White paper backs Choose and Book
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ white paper backs Choose and Book as part of radical plans to extend patient choice, but has little to say about personal health records.
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PCTs to go in massive NHS reorganisation
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that primary care trusts are to be abolished as part of a massive reorganisation of the NHS.
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