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Connecting for Health spends well below budget
News Connecting for Health's actual spending was £686m on capital work, compared with £915m budgeted for the year, £229m less than expected. This continues a trend revealed in March, when Connecting for Health said that from its start to March 2007 it...
[July 17, 2008, 16:26]
NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records
News NHS Connecting for Health has changed its policy on deleting summary care records. The Information Commissioner's Office confirmed it had met Connecting for Health to discuss the permanent deletion of records, and commented: "People want the...
[May 27, 2009, 9:24]
NHS denies privacy risk over smartcard sharing
News NHS Connecting for Health has admitted that smartcards were shared between staff at a Warwickshire hospital, but denied that this compromised the confidentiality of patient data. On Thursday, Connecting for Health (CfH) — the NHS department...
[February 2, 2007, 10:40]
NHS procures encryption software
News Connecting for Health has procured encryption software for use throughout the National Health Service. A Connecting for Health (CfH) spokesperson said the product was selected from a range of alternatives as the most appropriate.
[April 3, 2008, 9:49]
Rollout of NHS e-record software faces more delays
News According to a paper released online by the North West Strategic Health Authority, NHS Connecting for Health and local service provider CSC are preparing a new schedule, extending to 2016, for installation of the Lorenzo software within health...
[May 22, 2008, 9:27]
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. In a statement, Connecting for Health said that it had been forced to ask BT to install the...
[February 27, 2006, 12:45]
Accenture 'pulling out of NHS IT project'
News NHS Connecting for Health has refused to confirm press reports on Thursday morning which have suggested that Accenture — the largest contractor in the massive NHS IT overhaul — is pulling out of the project.
[September 28, 2006, 10:15]
NHS hits back at critics over IT delays
News In a statement released on Monday, NHS Connecting for Health, the body responsible for implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), insisted that it was "within budget, ahead of schedule in some areas and broadly on track in others".
[January 31, 2006, 16:35]
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]
Confusion surrounds Granger's NHS departure
News On announcing his decision to step down from his position running the National Programme for IT in the NHS and as chief executive of Connecting for Health (CfH) in June last year, Granger initially indicated he would leave in October last year.
[January 16, 2008, 11:19]
BT boasts of NPfIT progress
News To remedy this, the company agreed with Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for delivering the programme, to make changes to its subcontractors. There is now a recognition in Connecting for Health that use of NPfIT systems for research...
[June 8, 2007, 10:32]
NHS rolls out infection-resistant keyboards
News The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) in a pilot supported by Connecting for Health, the Department of Health's technology agency. Maureen Baker, Connecting for Health's national...
[May 8, 2008, 8:46]
NHS IT project is doing OK, says Audit Office
News According to the NAO report, total expenditure on the programme — now called Connecting for Health — is now estimated at £12.6bn. The report also suggested that the Department of Health, NHS Connecting for Health and the NHS should "commission a...
[June 16, 2006, 12:30]
Two NHS IT leaders appointed
News Bellamy will be the director of programme and system delivery, leading Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT. NHS chief executive David Nicholson said: "The creation of these two roles enhances both...
[August 7, 2008, 16:13]
Department of Health dismisses NHS IT blame
News It insisted that Connecting for Health (CfH) — the NHS department running NPfIT — had since acted on the NAO's recommendations. In a statement, the department claimed that "where there have been delays in providing and implementing some systems, in...
[April 17, 2007, 14:17]
NHS IT timescale questioned as iSoft CEO resigns
News Much of the "negative speculation and comment" referred to by Whiston stems from iSoft’s sluggish progress in delivering on the NHS’s Connecting For Health programme. John White, iSoft's corporate communications director, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday...
[June 15, 2006, 9:40]
Spending watchdog attacks Government's record on IT
News Some £3.2bn of the total saving meant to come from upgraded or new IT systems such as the NHS Connecting for Health project. The NHS Connecting for Health project has already seen some problems. In December last year, The Public Accounts Committee...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
NHS top IT job to be split in two
News The decision to double up the IT roles was taken as part of an ongoing review of effective information use in the NHS amid a £12.4bn overhaul of IT in the NHS known as Connecting for Health. The Department of Health advertised for a chief...
[April 29, 2008, 8:34]
MPs pan NHS care-records rollout
News The MPs criticised Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT), for a lack of local involvement in the care-record project. The report said: "Hospitals have often been left out of negotiations...
[September 14, 2007, 9:23]
NPfIT future in question as BT reviews contract
News NHS Connecting for Health declined to comment on BTGS's announcement. Under the deal, BT is replacing an ageing patchwork of 5,000 different NHS computer systems with a nationwide infrastructure connecting more than 100,000 doctors, 380,000 nurses...
[January 23, 2009, 8:21]
