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NHS IT restructured in bid for savings

...a move to save £700m. Responsibility for applications delivered under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be decentralised and devolved to local NHS strategic... Read more

9 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government CIO Joe Harley to retire

...seek an end to multibillion-pound IT programmes such as the National Programme for IT.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Joe... Read more

23 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

DoH considers scrapping patient admin IT contract

...to deliver computer systems to health trusts in England under the National Programme for IT. The DoH may scrap CSC's multibillion-pound contract after... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Summary Care Records costs top £96m

...central electronic patient record, a major feature of England's NHS National Programme for IT, was under review with a focus on ownership of the... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Kable

NHS patient records: Key trust drops flagship scheme

Another blow for upgrades to patient record systems... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

NHS IT: Hospitals will struggle to fund upgrades on their own

...The Department of Health is cutting the lifetime cost of the National Programme for IT from £12.7bn to £11.4bn(Photo credit: Shutterstock) As... Read more

13 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

NHS IT revamp: Coalition wields £700m scalpel

Swingeing cuts to National Programme for IT The coalition government has announced £700m of cuts to the... Read more

9 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

NHS IT: DoH considers terminating multibillion-pound contract

...to deliver computer systems to health trusts in England under the National Programme for IT. The review was launched after CSC failed to put the... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Spending review: £1bn-plus cuts to government IT bill

...further £700m cut is expected to be made to the NHS National Programme for IT. On top of these savings, the government claims to have... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Nick Heath

CSC to buy troubled iSoft Group

...Computer Sciences Corporation is to buy iSoft Group, the two NHS National Programme for IT suppliers announced on Saturday. The deal will see CSC Computer... Read more

4 April, 2011 by David Meyer

NHS IT revamp destined for major surgery?

Health reform could be "nail in the coffin" for £12.7bn National Programme for IT The government has signalled that the £12.7bn programme to... Read more

13 July, 2010 by Nick Heath

£7bn NHS e-records plan faces failure, says watchdog

...Care Records Service project is part of the wider £11.4bn National Programme for IT, which is made up of a range of projects at... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

NHS may revive 'unworkable' Lorenzo system

...US corporation CSC, despite the government pledging to 'dismantle' the NHS National Programme for IT. The NHS is in the process of negotiating a new... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...more projects on the scale of the 14-year £11.4bn National Programme for IT, opening up the £17bn public sector IT market to suppliers... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Joe Harley to step down as government and DWP CIO

...of an end to multibillion-pound IT programmes such as the National Programme for IT. Harley took over the government CIO role, in addition to... Read more

22 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

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