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Expert: NHS virus outbreak was 'entirely avoidable'
News The infection of computer systems at Barts and The London NHS Trust was "entirely avoidable", according to a review carried out by an independent IT specialist for the hospitals. The Barts and The London NHS Trust report said that while some...
[January 29, 2009, 16:25]
NHS spending question
Talkback I often wonder how long it will be before the whole NHS budget is spend on adminstration and non real medical applications. I cannot believe that the local NHS should spend on such as this, however worthy it might be, and cannot believe that their...
[November 25, 2009, 1:31]
Patients should see records online, NHS experts say
Blog The NHS and healthcare would be transformed by putting patients' medical records on the web for them to see, senior NHS insiders have suggested. For more on why the NHS should put records online, head over to silicon.com.
[August 24, 2009, 12:28]
NHS to allow opt-outs from database
Talkback I wouldn't be so worried about the NHS having my information. I want an option to keep my data from being stored on a computer running Windows. Because the chances are it will be hacked or something will go wrong.
[January 19, 2005, 9:54]
NHS IT timescale questioned as iSoft CEO resigns
Talkback The NHS project is a dangerous weapon, potentially vulnerable to all the usual foul-ups & mis-entered data that have befallen all government IT projects. What a non surprise! One has to question why government seem to want all this data.
[June 19, 2006, 23:56]
NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records
News NHS Connecting for Health has changed its policy on deleting summary care records. Following discussions with the Information Commissioner's Office, the agency in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT has given patients the right to delete an...
[May 27, 2009, 9:24]
NHS IT project is doing OK, says Audit Office
News After months of speculation, the NHS and the director general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, have escaped censure from the National Audit Office (NAO) which published its report on the NHS National Programme for IT on Friday.
[June 16, 2006, 12:30]
NHS hits back at critics over IT delays
News The NHS has defended its multi-billion pound IT project, claiming that recent delays are the fault of companies it has contracted to provide software and services. In a statement released on Monday, NHS Connecting for Health, the body responsible...
[January 31, 2006, 16:35]
NHS IT failures 'left babies unvaccinated'
News The NHS has defended Connecting for Health, its multi-billion pound IT upgrade, amid reports of problems that left thousands of babies at risk of infection. The Observer reported that as many as 3,000 children had not received important...
[February 27, 2006, 12:45]
NHS IT problems
Blog Only last week Lord Warner was claiming NHS patients would be able to opt out of the massive new NPfIT database, but today the Guardian reports this to be absolute nonsense. Now, as a former worker for the NHS, I well understand the need for the...
[November 1, 2006, 11:59]
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If that is the NHS' view on 23 experts who are trying to aid...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
NHS takes the open source pill
Talkback It confirms that Richard Granger has his eye firmly focused on the NHS big picture where savings and efficiency mated with leveraging the massive IT and other economies of scale in complex social environments will in time deliver phenomenal cost...
[December 16, 2005, 15:04]
NHS hits million electronic prescriptions milestone
News More than a million prescriptions have now been transmitted electronically as part of the £6.2bn modernisation of NHS IT systems. Tim Donohoe, NHS Connecting for Health group programme director, said in a statement: "This is a significant milestone...
[May 17, 2006, 10:40]
NHS probing eBay fraud claims
News The NHS is investigating reports of paramedics selling stolen medical equipment on eBay. Defibrillators, uniforms and neck braces are among the items that were found on the Internet auction site by the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management...
[May 18, 2005, 11:50]
NHS IT report was watered down
News A key report into the NHS's massive IT upgrade programme was watered down by the Government before publication, it has emerged. A warning that there are "insufficient trainers to train NHS staff", became a warning that a lack of knowledge could be...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
NHS takes the open source pill
Talkback The NHS seems to be getting a little more intelligent all we got to do now is get the rest of that darn insulting M$ Corp deal canned and tranquility can rule the roost as a member of the trust at my local NHS hospital it is nice to see sense...
[December 6, 2005, 12:25]
NHS strikes £60m deal for online health portal
News The NHS has struck a £60m deal to provide an online health portal for patients. Outsourcing company Capita Group has won a three-year contract to develop and maintain NHS Choices, the round-up of all NHS health and social care.
[November 14, 2008, 7:43]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News The project at the heart of NHS IT faces cuts and may even be scrapped, according to the chancellor, Alistair Darling. The NHS had quite an expensive IT system that, frankly, isn't essential to the front line.
[December 7, 2009, 13:51]
NHS IT agency faces restructure
News It is part of a shake-up of the way the NHS IT is delivered, with responsibility falling to six directors reporting to director-general of informatics, Christine Connelly, and chief information officer of the NHS Information Centre, Tim Straughan.
[June 25, 2009, 14:36]
NHS computer systems take a sickie
News Some 80 NHS trusts across England have been hit by a "serious interruption" to their computer systems. NHS Connecting for Health (CFH), the agency responsible for health service IT, said services provided by CSC Alliance for the NHS in the North...
[August 1, 2006, 9:55]
