OFT investigates public sector IT deals
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether public sector IT deals limit interoperability and competition in the sector.
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Plymouth portal encourages tech talk
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has developed a portal for employees to discuss investments in clinical technologies.
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Southern community tender issued
A £28m community and child health systems procurement is out to tender, and should lead to nine Southern trusts receiving one system as a managed service.
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Six Southern procurement groups formed
Six collaborations involving 21 Southern acute trusts have been formed to invest in a variety of new IT systems including e-prescribing, clinical portals and clinical documentation.
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NHS SBS launches procurement service
NHS Shared Business Services has launched a procurement service that it says will help NHS trusts and GP consortia to get the right prices for items they need to buy.
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NAO draws on paper to show inefficiency
The NHS is spending almost £150m a year on printing and stationery, the National Audit Office has discovered in a report that uses paper as an example of the complexity and inefficiency of NHS procurement.
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NHS ‘wastes £1 billion on procurement’
The head of NHS Shared Business Services has said the health service wastes more than £1 billion a year by not effectively managing procurement.
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Wearable cardiac sensor gets CE approval
An advanced new wearable wireless patient monitoring system has received CE mark approval, allowing it to be sold in Europe.
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Commission says e-health is on track
The European Commission has published an update on its lead market initiative for e-health, reporting that it is too early to tell whether work has had an impact on growing the continent’s e-health market.
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Orion wins Northern Ireland ECR deal
Northern Ireland has named Orion as the winner of a procurement for a proof of concept project for a province-wide electronic care record (ECR). The one-year deal will be to develop a new portal-based electronic health record, predominantly for use in secondary care but linking hospitals and practices, with the potential to also link social […]
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