LSPs receive dozens of default notices
Dozens of default notices have been issued to BT, the local service provider for London, over the past seven months, a parliamentary written answer has revealed. Between 26 August 2009 and 8 March 2010, BT was handed 70 default notices for “critical service level failures” and an additional notice for number of calls answered. CSC, the […]
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BMA says ‘suspend SCR roll-out’
The British Medical Association has written to the government calling for the roll-out of the Summary Care Record to be suspended.
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£40m NPfIT legal bills revealed
Almost £40m has been paid to two law firms for legal and commercial support for the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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No budget for NPfIT agreed post March
No budget for the NHS National Programme for IT has yet been agreed after the end of March, now less than three months away.
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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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Lansley may abandon LSP contracts
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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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative Party conference. Lansley gave few details of where his £1.5 billion of savings would come from, although he attacked commissioning bodies, NHS quangos and “political” targets as examples of Labour profligacy. He claimed that switching […]
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Survey gives boost to HealthSpace
E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk survey shows strong backing for HealthSpace and none at all for commercial alternatives.
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Readers back reformed NPfIT
The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk has concluded.
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DH’s lead on acute choice leaves
The NHS chief information officer leading work on offering acute trusts in the South a choice of IT systems has left the Department of Health for a new job. John-Jo Campbell, the chief information officer at NHS South Central SHA, had been seconded to the DH’s Informatics Directorate by director general of informatics Christine Connelly. […]
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