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National Health Service Shared Business Services Set to Cut Costs by 20%
White Papers National Health Service Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) provides high quality finance and accounting, payroll and procurement services to NHS organizations, enabling them to focus their expenditure and expertise on improving the quality and...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
The National Health Service Electronic Staff Record Modernizes Its Human Resources System
White Papers National Health Service Electronic Staff Record (ESR) is the world class, national, integrated human resources and payroll system that will be used by all of the more than 600 National Health Service (NHS) organizations throughout England and Wales.
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Healthcare IT pros call for standards
News The document also urges a move away from a "big bang" implementation of highly sophisticated solutions towards a focus on "roadmaps towards readiness", and greater engagement with health-service staff.
[October 9, 2008, 15:42]
NHS critical IT faults double in three years
News A spokesman for the NHS Connecting for Health service-delivery team said: "When you deploy a national system such as The Spine or Choose and Book, you will get some glitches as problems emerge and are discovered.
[February 3, 2009, 7:35]
NHS IT project told to improve or risk break-up
News The Department of Health must turn around the multibillion-pound Care Records Service within six months or risk seeing the scheme broken up, according to MPs. Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said in a statement: "With...
[January 28, 2009, 16:39]
NHS IT leaving doctors 'thoroughly disillusioned'
News The health service has developed a Care Record Guarantee which sets out the principles that will be applied in handling electronic care records. Full implementation of the electronic Summary Care Record (SCR) system for recording patients' medical...
[May 19, 2008, 9:01]
NHS IT contractors to be paid £1.1bn extra
News Connecting for Health will now pay BT £1bn, 61 percent more than the original £620m, to provide the national Spine for the NHS National Programme for IT, following a contract reset in February this year, according to a parliamentary written answer...
[September 9, 2008, 13:41]
This is not the whole truth
Talkback See Connecting for Health's factsheet on the Secondary Uses Service: http://etdevents.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/eventmanager/uploads/factsheet_sus1.doc Pseudonymised" patient information - and in some instances, identifiable patient information [3...
[September 23, 2008, 14:57]
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]
Sophos Case Study: Sussex Health Informatics Service
White Papers Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) manages the IT services for eleven National Health Service (NHS) trusts throughout the county. Its deployment of a new consolidated security suite from Sophos has helped tighten the security of its 25,000...
[March 4, 2009, 0:25]
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]
