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Amanda Pritchard
29 January 2025

No set date for the NHS to be paperless, says Amanda Pritchard

Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, has admitted that there is no set date at which the NHS will
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10 December 2021

‘Lessons to be learned’ for NHS following PAC report into digital challenges

NHS Providers have said there are “lessons that can be learned” for the NHS after a report into the challenges
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Paramedics with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) pose next to a helicopter
17 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee accuses ESN vendors of creating ‘perverse incentives’

The Public Accounts Committee continues to ladle out criticism of an ongoing project to update communications systems for emergency services.
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Ambulance
10 May 2019

NAO raises further concerns over Emergency Services Network

The Emergency Services Network (ESN) is intended to replace Airwave – the system currently used by emergency services in Great
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New tech vision at odds with GDE playbook
24 October 2018

Mandatory open standards will not close health IT market, DHSC believes

The department was questioned by the Public Accounts Committee about proposals that call for NHS IT suppliers to abide by
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18 April 2018

PAC criticises NHS’s lack of action on WannaCry measures

The NHS has been criticised by MPs not taking enough action to improve cyber security measures following 2017’s WannaCry incident.
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29 November 2017

Public Account Committee slams NHS for ‘shoddy handling’ of clinical correspondence

NHS England's loss of clinical correspondence has been labelled "one of the biggest failures in the NHS in recent history"
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public account committee
3 May 2017

Emergency services’ may be left unable to share radios for 6 months

The emergency services could be unable to communicate with each other for six months in 2020, a Public Accounts Committee
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25 January 2017

£4 billion emergency radio system “not yet proven”

A Commons’ Public Accounts Committee says the Emergency Services Network for ambulance, police and fire services is behind schedule and
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The UK Houses of Parliament
4 February 2015

PAC calls for better NHS cost data

The Commons’ public accounts committee has called for the collection of “consistent and detailed cost data across the NHS” to
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