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10 November 2015

NHS IT needs £8 billion – McKinsey

Exclusive: The NHS needs to spend an additional £7.2 billion to £8.3 billion on digital technology over the next five
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24 March 2010

Lower borrowing, more savings in Budget

Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed that government borrowing will be lower than predicted in last year’s Pre-Budget Report, while committing
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8 February 2010

Kent and Medway virtualises desktops

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has chosen a thin client strategy to cope with increasing demands
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30 June 2009

Scrap big government IT: think tank

A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead
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30 June 2009

Brown plans for ‘entitlements’

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has outlined plans to give public service users new "entitlements", while promising a tougher NHS performance
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29 June 2009

SOCITM calls for IT stimulus

A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in
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26 June 2009

McKesson sees shared services growth

McKesson has announced a 200% growth in its Shared Services over the past 12 months. The Healthcare and IT solutions
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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11 June 2009

Burnham wants ‘health service fit for the digital age’

New health secretary Andy Burnham has said that despite the NHS’ coming financial problems, he still wants to see a
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10 June 2009

Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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