Granger says final LSP contract will come when ‘right’
The final local service provider (LSP) contract for the South of England will be signed in the New Year, when suppliers have "responded to treatment", says NHS IT director-general Richard Granger. In a short interview with E-Health Insider on the day that two of the remaining three LSP contracts were signed Granger said he was […]
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Two LSP contracts announced, South delayed until 2004
The National Programme for IT this morning announced that CSC and Accenture are the winners of two of the three remaining local service provider (LSP) contracts, worth a total of £1,907m. The award of the final LSP contract, for the South of England, has been put back to January 2004 for unspecified reasons. A National […]
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South Manchester Chooses InFocus Health
In Focus Health Ltd has won the contract tender to supply South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust with its web-based clinical performance reporting and benchmarking system. InFocus Health will supply South Manchester with its HiPPO 21 system. Installation is due to begin immediately with the system due to be rolled out to 250 users across […]
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TransScript ETP project to close
TransScript ETP, the only UK company dedicated to the development of the Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP), is to close from 31 December 2003. TransScript was formed by PharMed, an organisation that has been committed to developing secure open industry standards for ETP since 1997. The PharMed project, one of three ETP pilots run nationally, […]
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Granger secures commitment to fund NPfIT
Comment: Jon Hoeksma, E-Health Insider For Richard Granger, NHS IT Director-General, the announcement of the award of three key contracts to deliver the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), provides a vindication of his management of the procurement phase of the programme and hardball negotiation tactics with suppliers on pricing. Although the extra £2.3 billion pledged […]
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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts
Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having their own individual electronic NHS Care Record by 2010. The pledge came on the day the Department of Health announced the award of three crucial contracts, worth a total of £2,715m, to deliver key components […]
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Monday looks certain to be C-Day
After weeks of frenzied speculation, much of it by E-Health Insider readers in our E-Health Forums, conjecture on contract award day – ‘C-day’ – now appears over. Monday, 8 December now looks certain to be ‘C-day’, the date on which the first major contract awards by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be officially […]
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Farewell ICRS, hello NHS Care Record Service
E-Health Insider can exclusively reveal that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has ditched Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) as its preferred nomenclature for the electronic care records that form the centrepiece of the NHS IT modernisation programme. A spokesperson for the NPfIT confirmed to EHI that from now on ICRS will instead be known […]
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Paying the price for success
As the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements approach their climax the final few weeks of negotiations appear to have centred on the relentless push from the centre to drive down prices for systems, software and associated services. The challenge is to stretch to the limit the return on the £2.3 billion being invested nationally […]
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E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues
As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years coverage of e-health. December 2001 – Tablets within two years In EHI No 1 we reported on a Microsoft-Department of Health conference at which Bill Gates and Alan Milburn set out the vital role of […]
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