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National Health Service Improves Patient Care For 59 Million Citizens
White Papers The National Health Service (NHS) provides healthcare for 59.6 million citizens of the United Kingdom. With these changes and using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system, NHS is meeting customer service and accessibility mandates and...
[April 1, 2007, 0:00]
Stern Medicine Needed For NHS IT Failings
Leader So the National Health Service IT project is going to cost up to five times more than we had previously been told. Tony Blair will find it hard to eulogise about the reform of the health service if his opponents are ridiculing his £30bn white...
[October 12, 2004, 13:20]
New Performance Assessment & Accountability Review Arrangements For NHSScotland
White Papers The detailed change programme Rebuilding the National Health Service, published by the Scottish Executive Health Department on 8 May 2001, gave an overview of the planned new NHS performance and accountability arrangements announced in the...
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
NAO Report To Critise NHS Plans
News A long-awaited report on the NHS by the National Audit Office (NAO) is expected to criticise the Government's plans for the modernisation of the health service and the progress made so far in implementing the £6.2bn NHS IT programme.
[March 23, 2006, 12:50]
Government Plans Key Role For IT In Health Services
News The national service framework is a 10-year plan for improving health and social care for children, young people and their families. He said that the service allowed teenagers to build up trust with staff, and could encourage them to visit sexual...
[September 16, 2004, 16:05]
NHS Library Traffic Shows Healthy Growth
News The electronic library is now part of a new more comprehensive service, the National Library for Health. The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) is reportedly attracting two million visitors per year.
[December 29, 2004, 14:30]
NHS To Allow Opt-outs From Database
News This runs counter to NPfIT's previously stated position that, while patients could prevent their data being shared around the health service, they could not prevent it being held in databases. NPfIT outlined the position in response to media...
[January 18, 2005, 15:50]
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. Halligan said he will put patients at the centre of his vision to have a...
[March 23, 2004, 11:15]
BT 'on Track' For NHS Deadlines
News BT's assurances over deadlines coincided with it announcing that it has rolled out 85 percent of the virtual private network (VPN) it is contracted to provide to the National Health Service. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the...
[September 14, 2006, 12:50]
NHS Report Hails NPfIT Milestones
News The report claims that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) local ownership programme (NLOP) has already given strategic health authorities significantly greater influence and control over the rollout and implementation of the NPfIT in their areas.
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
Richard Granger's NHS IT Legacy
News A major report into the NHS IT project by the National Audit Office (NAO) last year provoked more controversy over accusations it had been watered down under protest from Granger and the Department of Health.
[June 19, 2007, 9:36]
Microsoft Wins £500m NHS Contract
Talkback I do not understand why our National Health Service has awarded a contract with Microsoft. Surely a cheaper alternative could have been found.
[January 1, 2005, 16:05]
NHS IT Project Costs Soar
News The UK government admitted on Monday evening that the cost of upgrading the National Health Service's IT system would be much greater than previously forecast. But the Department of Health has now said that it will actually cost between three and...
[October 12, 2004, 9:40]
North East Wales NHS Trust Automates Procurement Processes
White Papers Following a recommendation by the National Audit Office that called for increased public sector efficiencies, the North East Wales National Health Service (NHS) Trust launched a major initiative in 2002 designed to bring Web-enabled procurement...
[December 21, 2006, 23:00]
Sun Java System Communications Solution For NHS Tayside
White Papers As one of the largest National Health Service (NHS) administrations in Scotland, NHS Tayside aims to improve the health of the people living in Tayside, and to reduce health inequalities. In recent years, one of the most beneficial changes to NHS...
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
NHS Picks BT For Massive Broadband Network
News The National Health Service has awarded BT a major contract to run a nationwide broadband network that will link together 18,000 NHS sites. Announcing the decision to give BT the role of creating and managing N3, health minister John Hutton said...
[February 19, 2004, 12:20]
McKesson Information Solutions U.K. Delivers & Manages The "Service Experience" For HealthCare Customers With IView Service Level Management
White Papers John Kooyman of McKesson Information Solutions U.K.was asked to provide a solution to "capture the quality of user experience" for their National Health Service (NHS) clients across the U.K, he turned to iView and its intelligent metrics to model...
[August 18, 2004, 0:00]
XML As An Engine Of Change In Healthcare
White Papers This paper takes forward some initial research on the relationship between attitudes and technology in the context of leading edge administrative applications within the UK National Health Service (NHS).
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
HP ProCurve - Superior Price/Performance In The NHS
White Papers With growing volumes of patient-related data being processed and stored on computers, ICT has come to play a key role in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust was faced with the need to process and store growing...
[July 5, 2005, 0:00]
Case Study: EProcurement In The NHS - NHS Purchasing And Supply Agency
White Papers The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency works with around 400 NHS trusts and health authorities and manages 3,000 national purchasing contracts, influencing around half of the £7 billion spent in the NHS on purchasing goods and services in the health...
[April 28, 2005, 0:00]
