PAC doubts DH can deliver paperless NHS
The Department of Health has come in for stinging criticism for the way it handled NPfIT contracts from Parliament’s spending watchdog, which has also cast doubt on its ability to deliver a ‘paperless’ NHS by 2018.
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£600m in LPfIT costs post 2011
More than half of the estimated £1.2 billion cost of the London Programme for IT is being paid out after March 2011, six months after the national programme was officially axed.
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Spine2 live in summer 2014
Formal supplier testing of Spine2 will begin within a few months and it will go-live in summer 2014.
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Misleading the PAC ‘very serious’- Bacon
A member of the Public Accounts Committee is looking at whether the Department of Health provided it with misleading information about the release of a final benefits statement on NPfIT.
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National PACS Programme broke even
The programme to deliver picture and archiving communications systems to hospitals in England has saved almost as much money as it cost, with benefits coming from faster turn-around times and the near-elimination of film and chemicals.
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Hunt announces £1 billion for health IT
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced another £240m for the technology fund, in a move that will see the government and NHS organisations invest £1 billion in IT over the next three years.
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DH reveals final NPfIT benefits
The Department of Health released its final report on the benefits of NPfIT in June, six days before it told the Public Accounts Committee that it would not be available until September.
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BJSS wins e-referrals contract
BJSS has won the contract to develop a new NHS e-referrals service due to go live late next year.
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DH expects £4.3 billion in NME benefits
The North, Midlands and East programme for IT is predicted to reap benefits of more than £4.3 billion, with more than 60% expected from the delivery of TPP’s SystmOne.
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£575m SPfIT benefits yet to be realised
The Southern Programme for IT will cost nearly £1 billion by the end of the programme, but had reaped just £27m in benefits by March last year.
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