BT Health boss to lead Oxford Radcliffe
Sir Jonathan Michael, managing director of BT Health, is to become the chief executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Lansley: LSP contracts may be abandoned
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider contracts that are part of The National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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EHI interview: Andrew Spence
Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly
A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to “bailing out the banks”. With the addition of BT’s National Application Service Provider deal for the NHS Spine the total value of contracts to be renegotiated rises to £5 billion. Mike Davis, senior analyst at […]
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Cerner predicts more FT contract wins
Cerner expects its annual UK turnover to rise by around £25m, to as much £61m, as more NHS foundation trusts select its electronic record software and it collects revenue from the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Cerner, which provides its Millennium software in London and parts of the South under local service provider […]
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London carnival on hold for RiO
Further implementations of the latest RiO community and mental health software in London and the South have been put on hold until September. The mounting delay means that up to five months will have passed since installations were stopped in April. Local service provider BT and the London Programme for IT previously said they planned […]
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Can BT and CSC deliver? Three months after they were given new deadlines, EHI editor Jon Hoeksma is doubtful.
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Epsom and St Helier rejects Cerner
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust has decided to remain one of the ‘iSoft7’, rejecting the option of switching to Cerner Millennium.
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Caring, sharing
Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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