Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers
An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on the market has become an international success. Dabl Educational Trust, a not-for-profit company sponsored by Dublin-based software company Dabl, was set up by William Rickard and Professor Eoin O’Brien.with support from the Royal College of […]
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NPfIT procurement unfriendly for SMEs, says OFT
SMEs are being locked out of competition in many areas of public sector procurement, including the National Programme for IT, due to the sheer size of the contracts up for grabs, a preliminary report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has found. In a case study of IT procurement, the OFT found that participation […]
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Web catalogue powers up procurement project
A collaborative NHS procurement project in the north-east of England has combined its bargaining power with the new ability to buy non-clinical items through a web-based catalogue. The North East Patches Shared Systems Project, which includes NHS organisations within Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, and North-East Yorkshire, allows requisitioning to take place over a simple web […]
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Thames Valley ICRS Collaborative PFI Procurement Suspended
The Thames Valley Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) collaborative procurement has become the latest high-profile NHS electronic records project to be put on hold, following a local decision to halt the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) procurement. At a meeting on 20 June the Programme Board in charge of the Thames Valley project decided to hold […]
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IT Procurement Strategy Promised By December
The government plans to publish the full version of its procurement strategy for the NHS IT programme by December 2002, according to answers given to parliamentary questions by health minister Hazel Blears. The latest details of the procurement strategy behind the NHS IT programme were published in answers provided by Ms Blears, in response to […]
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Monaghan Promises IT Procurement Strategy by July
Last week saw the publication of the new NHS IT implementation strategy, ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support’ , as reported first by E-Health Insider. However, many key questions remain to be answered around how the new relationships with suppliers will work, how procurements can be accelerated and how the whole programme can be rapidly delivered. […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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