Personal View: John Cruickshank
The author of ‘Fixing NHS IT’ outlines his recommendations for a new government and urges ministers to take action within 100 days.
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EHI Interview: Norman Lamb
As part of EHI’s general election coverage, Sarah Bruce talks to the Lib Dem health spokesman.
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A capital deal
Cohen: Morecambe Bay go-live ‘early May’
Gary Cohen has predicted that the latest version of Lorenzo will go live at University Hopsitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust in May 2010. The executive chairman and chief executive of iSoft told the Financial Times "we are confident that we have a go-live in early May." He made his comments the day after NHS chief […]
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CSC misses March Morecambe Bay deadline
CSC’s future in the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme is in doubt after it failed to hit a critical end of March deadline to install Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
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Bacon says ‘prove value of NPfIT deals’
A leading member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee has written to NHS chief information officer Christine Connelly, questioning how negotiations to ‘descope’ the two remaining local service provider contracts will deliver value for money.
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New CSC deal hinges on Morecambe Bay
A deal to cut hundreds of millions of pounds from the National Programme for IT in the NHS by cutting back the scope of its main electronic patient record software is set to be signed.
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Lorenzo – slow progress at Morecambe Bay
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust is yet to go-live with Lorenzo Release 1 at the Lancaster Royal Infirmary, more than a year after it originally planned to do so.
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LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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