Southern contract reset deadline up
The deadline set for completing the contract reset in the South of England has expired without agreement being reached. At the beginning of the current reset process, July 31 2007, January was set as the deadline in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between local service provider Fujitsu and the Southern Programme for IT (SPfIT). However, […]
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BT contract reset worth additional £55m funding
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has revealed that BT’s contract reset last summer was worth £55m additional funding, to reflect new requirements and additional functionality. Responding to a query by shadow health secretary, Stephen O’Brien, over why the ‘reset’ was necessary and what the costs of this were, Bradshaw said that costs and resets were for […]
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CSC fined £5m for late delivery of PAS systems
Computer Sciences Corporation has had to pay penalties totalling around £5m for late delivery of patient administration software.
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A year in review: LSPs in 2007
EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service providers: Fujitsu, CSC and BT.
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2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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CfH tells PCT it can’t mandate LSP solution
Connecting for Health has prevented a PCT from insisting that GP practices signed up to GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) must eventually move to a local service provider solution. North Yorkshire and York PCT told practices that signing up to GPSoC meant they were committing themselves to migrate to the fully integrated LSP solution when […]
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Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year
Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn in the past financial year.
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BT’s contract reset completed
BT has confirmed that it is ‘well underway’ with its ‘best of breed’ approach, after completing contract renegotiations with Connecting for Health in the summer. A BT spokesperson confirmed to E-Health Insider that the transition had been made ‘some time ago’, but was unable to say exactly when the transition was made. BT Health’s managing […]
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Queen Mary’s Sidcup goes live with Cerner
Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust has become the second NHS trust in London to go live with a Cerner Millennium patient administration system (PAS) supplied by BT under the NHS IT Programme. The trust went live with the new system over 28 October and 29 October, becoming the third implementation of a PAS by BT […]
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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