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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Darling targets efficiency, pay and tax
The Chancellor has slightly shifted the focus of this year’s Pre-Budget Report from the urgent need to make public sector efficiency savings to implementing pay freezes and increasing taxes.
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NPfIT GP systems ‘target for cuts’
The development of new GP systems by local service providers is likely to be a target of cuts to the National Programme for IT in the NHS, health secretary Andy Burnham has indicated.
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Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m
Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m will be trimmed from the way it is run and the scope of some systems.
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Hard Times?
What does this week’s pre-budget report mean for the NHS and its IT? Fiona Barr investigates.
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Pre-budget report targets NHS efficiency savings
Billions of pounds of extra efficiency savings are to be required from public sector organisations, including the NHS, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced yesterday. The savings form part of the emergency measures set out in the pre-budget report designed to kick-start the British economy, which is predicted to be heading into a deep recession. Government borrowing will […]
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NHS budget to reach £110 billion by 2011
The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase of 4%, the Chancellor announced on Tuesday. The additional investment should help the service realise savings of around £8.2 billion by 2010–11 with new technology helping to contribute to this. A £100m innovation fund is […]
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Carry On Spending and Modernising, Says Brown
Chancellor Gordon Brown has ordered the NHS to carry on with plans for extra spending and modernisation despite shortfalls in national revenues which have forced up borrowing. The Financial Times reported that borrowing would have to rise by £20bn – almost twice the figure forecast back in April – to enable the government to stick […]
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