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BT dominates Connecting for Health supplier spending

...Connecting for Health spent £470m with BT last year, more than twice as... Read more

9 September, 2010 by Kable

NHS IT restructured in bid for savings

...on Thursday. NPfIT itself will no longer be run by delivery mechanism Connecting for Health, and decisions on IT spending will be localised. "Improving IT... Read more

9 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...DoH) is one major user of Microsoft software licences within government bodies. Connecting for Health (CfH), the DoH informatics arm, owns the perpetual licences from... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Tablet PCs: A bitter pill for the NHS to swallow?

...at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. However new guidance from NHS Connecting for Health stresses the risk of health trusts choosing tablets over traditional... Read more

13 January, 2012 by Nick Heath

No clean bill of health for £3bn NHS patient record project

...the report said, adding that the Department of Health's informatics body Connecting for Health "expects to resolve this difference of opinion soon". However, the... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

Lulzsec accesses NHS admin passwords

...s an issue that's affecting a local NHS website," said a Connecting for Health spokeswoman. "This is a local issue that is not affecting... Read more

9 June, 2011

BT dominates NHS IT spending

...proportion of central health IT spending in England. In 2007-08, NHS Connecting for Health spent £3bn — or 82 percent of its expenditure — on the... Read more

22 November, 2010 by Kable

Department of Health scraps Novell enterprise deal

...Excellence: Liberating the NHS," said a spokesperson for the department. "Novell, NHS Connecting for Health and NHS trusts are engaged in constructive discussions to ensure... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Kable

Government defers ContactPoint database cancellation

...along with updates from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), NHS Connecting for Health and the DfE's School Census. The department will keep... Read more

21 June, 2010 by Kable

Microsoft deal with NHS England ends

...the pledge applies to front-line services rather than back-end ones. Connecting for Health (CfH), which administers NHS IT in England, did not respond... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

NHS IT revamp: Coalition wields £700m scalpel

...retained but maintained locally rather than by the NHS' central IT organisation, Connecting for Health (CfH). The NHS X-ray sharing system PACs will be... Read more

9 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

NHS IT revamp destined for major surgery?

...for IT in the NHS and the agency that runs it, NHS Connecting for Health," she said in a research note. The whitepaper also points... Read more

13 July, 2010 by Nick Heath

NHS IT agency faces restructure

...of Health (DoH) is in talks over what should become of the Connecting for Health (CfH) name after the agency's head, Martin Bellamy, departs... Read more

25 June, 2009 by Nick Heath

NHS tech agency touts use of open source

NHS Connecting for Health is using open source to collaborate with other countries' health... Read more

12 June, 2009 by Kable

NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records

NHS Connecting for Health has changed its policy on deleting summary care records. Following... Read more

27 May, 2009 by Kable

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