NPfIT transitions ‘high risk’
Four NHS hospital trusts that need to replace their nationally procured electronic patient record systems by the end of the month are deemed “high risk” by the board overseeing the programme.
Clinical Software
EDM project gets £10m gov funding
Two southern acute trusts have been awarded £10 million in government funding for a massive digitisation project involving scanning around 300 million pages of patient records.
Infrastructure
Swedish company wins ambulance bid
A Swedish company is the preferred bidder for a £19m contract to provide IT systems for three southern ambulance trusts.
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£600m in LPfIT costs post 2011
More than half of the estimated £1.2 billion cost of the London Programme for IT is being paid out after March 2011, six months after the national programme was officially axed.
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£575m SPfIT benefits yet to be realised
The Southern Programme for IT will cost nearly £1 billion by the end of the programme, but had reaped just £27m in benefits by March last year.
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NPfIT to cost £10 billion
The final cost of the National Programme for IT in the NHS is expected to be more than £10 billion.
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South Cerner sites join London framework
At least two Cerner live sites in the South are joining the London framework to procure an electronic patient record system beyond October 2015.
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Weston goes to tender
Weston Area Health NHS Trust has gone out to tender to replace its electronic patient record system beyond the end of its national contract in 2015.
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Legal challenge holds up procurement
A programme to procure an electronic patient record system for southern ambulance trusts is on hold due to a legal challenge from one of the bidders involved.
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£180m for South Acute
More than £80m of central funding will be available to southern NHS trusts to buy clinical IT systems as part of the South Acute programme.
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