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Criminal Justice IT programme seeks suppliers
News The UK government's £1.2bn criminal justice IT programme is looking for suppliers to deliver software and data hosting services for its main infrastructure. The CJS Exchange Programme is novel and complex, and because it is an ongoing programme in...
[July 12, 2004, 15:15]
Doctors lose faith in NHS IT programme
News Most doctors have lost all confidence in the Government's ability to deliver real improvements in healthcare through its controversial NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) which is beset with "distrust and cynicism", according to the results of a...
[January 10, 2006, 10:35]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News The National Programme for IT (NPfIT), which has a budget of over £12bn, will be scaled back or cut completely, Darling told the BBC on Sunday. While the National Programme for IT was characterised by poor value for money in its early stages...
[December 7, 2009, 13:51]
Lib Dems would scrap NHS National IT Programme
Blog Just watching the Lib Dem's conference on BBC Parliament and Norman Lamb, Libe Dem's Health spokesman, has just laid into the NHS National Programme for IT. The green IT angle to this story is that the NHS, like all government organisations is...
[September 15, 2008, 16:53]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
News The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) system will hold the records of 200,000 military personnel, along with 50,000 civilian medical records. The memory stick is still under development but the MoD envisages it will be...
[August 2, 2007, 16:30]
Doctors lose faith in NHS IT programme
Talkback I'm an IT engineer looking after GP networks and I am of the opinion that doctors will have many more problems until the government sort out the management structure within its trusts IT departments. Most of our managers have worked their way up...
[January 10, 2006, 13:24]
Socitm pushes IT security programme
News The Society of Information Technology Management has developed a framework for passing on IT security skills. It has issued an invitation to UK organisations to run programmes based on the materials it developed for the EU-funded iScan initiative...
[July 2, 2007, 17:19]
Government programme to get women back to IT
News It's hoped that the collaboration will produce a number of case studies for businesses to learn from. If you have something to say about work and employment issues say it here at the Jobs Forum. Women who have left the high-tech sector are being...
[September 16, 2002, 14:04]
Open-source global IT health programme launched
News Open Health Tools (OHT), based in the US, announced its Health Interoperability Framework on Tuesday, which will see the organisation work with international standards bodies, governments and companies from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US to...
[April 8, 2008, 17:52]
BT handed second fine for NHS broadband rollout
News The NHS IT programme is in talks with supplier BT in order to seek penalties of £4.5m for delays to the N3 broadband programme covering the health service, it was confirmed on Wednesday. The talks represent the second attempt to impose penalties on...
[December 15, 2004, 15:40]
NHS witholds BT payment
News The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is holding back almost a third of the initial payments due to its main supplier BT, it confirmed on Tuesday. In a statement issued to Government Computing News the programme said that it had refused to pay...
[October 5, 2004, 16:10]
NHS and EDS separate 'without blame'
News The NHS National Programme for IT and EDS have agreed to part ways on the NHS email and directory service project, with Cable and Wireless picking up the contract. The NHS and EDS separation has taken place "without any attribution of blame to...
[July 13, 2004, 17:25]
IBM deal averts strike action in Bradford
News Bradford Council has signed a contract with IBM to deliver its IT transformation programme after assuring worried staff that their jobs are not at risk. Unions had threatened industrial action over the Bradford-i programme which involves cutting...
[July 4, 2005, 16:55]
NHS appoints another IT overseer
News A new NHS IT 'czar' has been appointed by the government to work with frontline health service staff to ensure the smooth rollout of the £2.3bn NHS IT modernisation programme. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer, professor Aidan Halligan, will work as...
[March 23, 2004, 11:15]
NHS IT loses another leading light
News The departure of a leading official responsible for the NHS IT programme means the scheme has lost its second clinical chief in six months. Professor Aidan Halligan, the joint senior responsible owner for the £6bn NHS IT programme, is to leave his...
[September 23, 2004, 14:10]
Government IT briefs still up in the air
News The e-government agenda, NHS IT programme and ID cards schemes are all to be assigned to ministers over the next few days following the completion of the reshuffle. While Hutton is considered likely to take charge of the brief, given his previous...
[May 10, 2005, 15:30]
MPs savage NHS IT delays
News Delays with the £6.2bn NHS IT programme have been blamed on a lack of proper clinical consultation during the procurement of the systems. NHS CEO Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS director general of IT Richard Granger were grilled on the Connecting for...
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
PeopleSoft closes refund programme
News PeopleSoft has quietly let expire a customer-refund programme that it began last year after becoming the target of a hostile buyout attempt by its rival Oracle. The company's "customer assurance programme" is essentially a money-back guarantee that...
[April 2, 2004, 10:55]
Doctors losing faith in NHS IT
News The latest Medix survey shows that doctors' support for the NHS's National Programme for IT is falling, despite a general enthusiasm for new IT. Doctors' support for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is waning and they are becoming increasingly...
[November 26, 2007, 15:08]
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. The BBC's World at One radio programme revealed on Friday that it had obtained an early version of the report, which was...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
