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CfH gives go-ahead for IE7
NHS Connecting for Health has said organisations still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 should move to IE7, following security concerns about the older browser. The Department of Health signed a national licensing deal with Microsoft in October 2001 that lead to the majority of NHS trusts using IE 6 for internet and intranet access. In […]
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Connelly: South benefits from no LSP
Director general of informatics Christine Connelly has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS’ new approach in the South will mean faster delivery and greater engagement with frontline staff. Speaking at the Assist conference in Birmingham this morning, Connelly claimed there would be benefits to not having a single local service provider in […]
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Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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Carestream mid-way through NHSScotland PACS
Carestream Health has announced it has reached the half-way point in delivering PACS to NHSScotland, and intends to complete installations by the end of the year. The project now has 21 sites connected out of the country’s 39 hospitals, with 10,000 general clinical users and 200 radiologists registered to the system. According to 1 May […]
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Infrastructure gap between NHS trusts growing
The gap between the best and the worst NHS trusts on the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure and operations is growing.
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NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years
The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to lengthy delays in the delivery of the detailed local electronic patient records at the centre of the project. By March 2007 the programme had spent a total of £2.4bn, against an original forecast spend of […]
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Connecting for Health extends Microsoft licensing deal
Microsoft and NHS Connecting for Health have renewed their Enterprise Wide Agreement (EWA), following the completion of the first three years of the contract. The agreement covers most of the Microsoft Desktop and personal productivity software for up to 850,000 NHS users. The deal for the first time covers Microsoft Exchange and includes anti-virus technology […]
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Tories back more collaborative approach on IT
Shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has said that the government needs to start taking advantage of the ‘collaborative forums that are emerging on the internet’, citing the Patient Opinion website as an example. “The Patient Opinion website, a social enterprise set up by a Sheffield GP, is already demonstrating what can be achieved,” Osborne told a […]
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