End game for Davis and CfH announced
Katie Davis will step down as managing director for NHS Informatics by 1 September and NHS Connecting for Health will close by the end of March next year, EHI understands.
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BMA calls for Lansley to resign
The British Medical Association called for Andrew Lansley to resign at its Annual Representative Meeting in Bournemouth this morning.
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Handful of CSSs to host data centres
All commissioning support services have the opportunity to become one of eight to ten new data management integration centres being set up nationwide.
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Grant links IT to CCG success
The chair of the NHS Commissioning Board has said that the best clinical commissioning groups will be those with the best information systems, at a conference that focused on where those systems will come from.
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CCG authorisation guide published
Clinical commissioning groups will be able to receive full authorisation by the end of October this year, in the first of four monthly waves of approvals that are due to be complete by 31 January 2013.
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IT identified as key risk in NHS reforms
Dealing with the aftermath of the National Programme for IT in the NHS has been identified as one of the risks to the government’s latest reforms of the NHS, in a leaked draft of the risk register for the changes.
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NHS to be ‘liberated’ by Easter
The Health and Social Care Bill has cleared its final Parliamentary hurdle, with doctors welcoming amendments on confidentiality, but opponents of the reforms pledging to continue the fight.
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Government loses risk register fight
The government has been told it must publish one of the risk registers drawn up for the latest round of NHS reorganisation and reform.
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Lansley launches CCIO Leaders Network
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched the EHI CCIO Leaders Network, saying the technology gap between the NHS and other sectors must be closed by leaders with patients in mind.
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EHI focus on: South Staffordshire HIS
South Staffordshire Health Informatics Service has created a work-based informatics degree. EHI Primary Care reporter Rebecca Todd reports.
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