BT to axe 10,000 jobs
BT has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs across the whole company, including its BT Global Services division, which is responsible for three key English NHS IT contracts. The job cuts, amounting to 6% of the total workforce, will be spread across the BT Group. Six thousand will be “agency staff, sub-contractors and offshore […]
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BT Global Services to cut costs
A profit warning from BT Global Services, the arm of the company responsible for delivering key NHS IT contracts, has sent shares in the telecoms giant crashing to a 20-year low. While other divisions performed as expected, BT Global Services was said to be a “dissapointing” £120m behind expectations. BT’s chief executive Ian Livingston promised […]
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Personal view: Derek Hodgson
Derek Hodgson, head of telecommunications for the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, takes on 08 numbers.
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IBA tells investors Lorenzo will launch in November
In its first annual report since acquiring UK health software vendor iSoft, for £166m last August, IBA Health on Monday reported that revenues have almost quadrupled to £168m, up from £35m in 2007. The Australian company said the first version of its long delayed Lorenzo strategic software will have a “global launch” this November. A […]
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EHI’s news roundup 15.08.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 15 August features supplier news and information on newly published research reports.
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Abergele Hospital gets BloodTrack OnDemand
Abergele Hospital has implemented a BloodTrack OnDemand system from Olympus so that staff can obtain blood from stocks held at the hospital rather than from its main blood bank, five miles away. The hospital, which is part of Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, has seen immediate time and cost savings from the system, which enables […]
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically
The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit all the software and devices in its area, using the Centennial SAM.Suite. IM&T portfolio manager, Neil Asling, told E-Health Insider that manual audits were taking engineers weeks to complete and the service was unable to […]
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’
Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the ‘Asklepios Future Hospital Programme’.
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NHS Supply Chain extends iSoft deal
NHS Supply Chain has extended its contract with iSoft to host its e-commerce and logistics applications until 2010. The contract extends the ten-year partnership with NHS Supply Chain, which began with its predecessor organisation NHS Logistics. ISoft has been taken over by IBA Health since the original contract was awarded. Operated by DHL Logistics, NHS […]
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