Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog A spokesperson for Connecting for Health, which administrates NPfIT, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the £2.3bn figure had originally been put forward in 2002 as projected costs over three years. The Connecting for Health spokesperson told ZDNet UK on...
[November 23, 2009, 12:15]
BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Given the phase of the flight when the accident happened, the primary suspect for the source of any such interference has to be mobile phone handsets, illicitly turned on by business travellers desperate to make contact after a long flight and...
[January 21, 2008, 12:14]
Burn: NPfIT has 'failed so far'
Blog At last month's Government UK IT Summit, Andy Burn, head of information management and technology planning for Connecting for Health, made an astonishing statement: There have been plenty of successes right across the board in the health sector...
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
NPfIT doublespeak of the day
Blog Naturally we rang Connecting for Health to check this out, and duly received a reply denying the Guardian's angle completely. A couple of days ago the Guardian ran a story alleging that the NHS was seeking "alternative software suppliers" for the...
[March 6, 2007, 9:56]
NHS loses thousands of smartcards
Blog Connecting for Health, in charge of NHS computer systems, said 4,147 were unaccounted for - but insisted that they were useless without PIN numbers. The BBC reports that NHS staff have lost at least 4,147 of the cards, which give access to...
[February 6, 2008, 16:36]
Benefits of breaking free from a desk
Blog Doing it without attracting possible security risks for the systems you are connecting to takes some smart software. Health and wellbeing were also important home working considerations, according to the workers surveyed.
[February 20, 2008, 4:50]
Official Organizations Losing Data
Blog Laptops issued to employees could be used as thin terminals connecting to perhaps an LTSP server via a secure tunnel. How many more government, health service, or military officials are going to lose pen drives, DVDs, USB hard disks and even entire...
[December 22, 2009, 14:49]
Transplanted head to review NHS IT
Blog Connecting for Health, which runs the project, is to be downsized as staff are migrated into their area trusts. The massive NHS IT overhaul (the National Programme for IT - NPfIT) has a new boss. Richard Granger's not gone, but there's a new NHS...
[November 27, 2006, 13:56]
