DH looks to IT suppliers for savings
Health minister Simon Burns has said that the Department of Health is targeting ICT products and services worth £6m in order to make reductions in public expenditure.
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Hello Goodbye
Lyn Whitfield reports from Liverpool on an NHS Confederation conference pre-occupied by the entrance and exit of GP commissioning and primary care trusts.
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Treasury frets about GP commissioning
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted that the Treasury is concerned abut the government’s plans to hand secondary care commissioning to GPs. Responding to a question at the end of the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Loverpool, Sir David said he was also acutely aware of the need to keep financial control in the NHS […]
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Intellect: ‘cuts mean IT investment’
The chair of Intellect’s Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider he expects increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings that need to be made by the NHS.
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Lansley: ‘NHS not protected from change’
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned the NHS it cannot expect the funding increases it has enjoyed in the recent past and it will not be protected from change.
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Data published as Whitehall is reviewed
The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts that will be reviewed by the new government to ensure value for money. A joint Treasury and Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group, led by Paymaster General Francis Maude, is examining all new contracts worth […]
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Unison attacks abolition of SHAs
Health unions have condemned the latest shake up of the NHS, which will include the abolition of strategic health authorities. Unision expressed dismay at what it described as a "dismal" Queen’s Speech this morning, and attacked an announcement by health secretary Andrew Lansley that SHAs will be scrapped by April 2012. Last week’s 30 page […]
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NHS London reconfiguration to be axed
The government is set to scrap a far-reaching reconfiguration of health services in London, including hospital mergers and closure of A&E units. The plans, which centred on the creation of ‘polysystems’ and involved hospital mergers and new polyclinics, took some three years to compile and were projected to save £5 billion a year by 2016. They […]
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Osborne orders review of govt spending
The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced a review of all government spending commitments since New Year’s Day. Announcing a package of measures to “enhance fiscal credibility”, Osborne said that the Treasury had written to every secretary of state in Whitehall ordering them to “re-examine all spending approvals since 1 January this […]
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma argues that an incoming UK government looking to make savings may find the £3 billion of unsigned CSC deals an irresistible target.
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