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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CfH confirm switch to Prodigy for clinical evidence
Connecting for Health have confirmed they have awarded a five year contract to provide Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) to a consortium comprising the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics(SCHIN) and international medical publishers EBSCO. As E-Health Insider Primary Care exclusively revealed last week NHS Connecting for Health ended its agreement with BMJ Publishing Group on 30 […]
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Trusts told not to download latest Internet Explorer
Connecting for Health has instructed NHS trusts not to download copies of the latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser until it can confirm the software works with national applications delivered by the programme and its prime contractors. Reports from NHS users indicate that the web-based Choose and Book application may have problems operating in conjunction with […]
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NHS Scotland signs Microsoft licensing deal
NHS Scotland has signed a national deal with Microsoft to supply office software and desktop operating systems at a discounted rate, saving an estimated £8m. Terms of the three-year deal were not disclosed, and the agreement is the first of its kind that NHS Scotland and Microsoft have signed together. Microsoft already has an enterprise-wide […]
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NHS Wales signs software deal with Microsoft
NHS Wales has signed a corporate licensing enterprise agreement with Microsoft covering the firm’s latest desktop and mobile computing software. The three year deal is estimated to provide savings of £6.1 million compared to trusts locally negotiating software licensing deals. The deal follows the £500m three year corporate licensing deal Microsoft signed with the English […]
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Mixed results as Contact splutters into life
E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new NHS email system, following last week’s news on the problems some readers have experienced. A major frustration appears to be the difficulty or inability to configure Contact to operate within Microsoft Outlook – a serious problem […]
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Standard NHS user interface to be developed
Microsoft has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Programme for IT to deliver a standard user interface (UI) for all NHS clinical information systems. The announcement came at the same time as news of a long-term licensing agreement with the NHS for Microsoft software. Under the agreement relating to […]
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Microsoft signs new software deal with NPfIT
Health minister John Hutton has announced a three-year software licensing deal with Microsoft, claiming savings for the NHS of up to £112m over the next three years. The Department of Health (DH) says that the NHS will save a whopping £330 million over the lifetime of the deal, thanks to tight negotiations led by the National […]
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