NHS picks BT for massive broadband network
News Announcing the decision to give BT the role of creating and managing N3, health minister John Hutton said that the network would assist the process of modernising the NHS. For NHS doctors, it will mean they can be confident that key patient data...
[February 19, 2004, 12:20]
NHS appoints another IT overseer
News Health minister John Hutton said in a statement: "The new IT systems and services are key to delivering patient choice and improved access to information for patients. The Department of Health's director of delivery John Bacon has also been...
[March 23, 2004, 11:15]
NHS IT loses another leading light
News Meanwhile, health minister John Hutton announced that the NPfIT has delivered a new software system to provide GP practices and Primary Care Trusts with feedback on the quality of their patient care. In April this year, professor Peter Hutton...
[September 23, 2004, 14:10]
Union urges caution over gov't outsourcing plans
News Secretary of state for business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public-service markets" that will make it easier for the private sector to win IT contracts. Hutton said in a statement: "It is clear that private and third...
[July 14, 2008, 8:33]
Link between Net porn and child abuse acknowledged
News Unveiled by junior Health Minister John Hutton, the guidance "Working Together to Safeguard Children" acknowledges a link between Net pornographers and child abuse. Government guidelines on child abuse have been updated to take account of...
[August 31, 1999, 16:53]
NHS to allow opt-outs from database
News NPfIT outlined the position in response to media reports covering health minister John Hutton's comments on plans for storing records. The NHS National Programme for IT has said that patients can opt out of having their records kept on databases...
[January 18, 2005, 15:50]
ISPs caught up in Internet babies furore
News As part of this push health minister John Hutton has written to ISPs stating that if someone informs them about illegal adoption adverts they must take the content down. ISPs have become the latest victims of the Internet adoption row, with the...
[January 22, 2001, 14:51]
NHS to email x-rays to doctors
News Health minister John Hutton said: "This groundbreaking deal is a great example of how investment in the IT infrastructure is helping to deliver better patient care. The days of holding an x-ray up to a light may be over, says the NHS IT programme
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
Government opens up NHS IT
News Health minister John Hutton said in a statement: "The new board has a vital role to play in improving care for patients. The government has set up a new body of patients and healthcare professionals to help smooth delivery of the £5bn NHS National...
[July 6, 2004, 15:15]
NHS IT project costs soar
News Health minister John Hutton said on Tuesday that the NHS would not have to carry an "unsustainable financial burden", and claimed that some of the cost estimates floating around are just speculation. The UK government admitted on Monday evening...
[October 12, 2004, 9:40]
Jane Wakefield: Buy your babies on the Net
News So when health minister John Hutton wrote to ISPs "reminding" them of the legal position on such content there was a renewed fear in the industry about who exactly should be responsible. The Internet was in the doghouse again last week, this time...
[January 29, 2001, 13:03]
Blair reaches out to IT staff
News It is important that John Hutton has been appointed as Cabinet Office minister at Cabinet level rank…He is personally experienced in this area and has shown interest in dealing with IT change. Blair recorded the message, which was broadcast on 24...
[May 25, 2005, 16:05]
Government IT briefs still up in the air
News The new ministers at the Cabinet Office, John Hutton and Jim Murphy, are in discussions on 10 May 2005 over who will take on responsibility for the eGovernment Unit along with other key areas of Whitehall's reform agenda.
[May 10, 2005, 15:30]
Timms handed IT role
News John Hutton, secretary of state at the newly formed Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), announced the appointment as part of the ministerial line-up on Wednesday. As the new minister of state for e-commerce...
[July 12, 2007, 12:20]
BT announces wind-farm scheme
News John Hutton MP, the secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform, said on Thursday that BT's move was "a great example of how businesses can contribute and help us meet our ambitious target to dramatically increase the amount...
[October 19, 2007, 13:50]
