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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]
NHS report hails NPfIT milestones
News The first quarter of 2007-08 witnessed several milestones for the National Programme for IT, says a report from the NHS. The report claims that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) local ownership programme (NLOP) has already given strategic...
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
Connecting for Health spends well below budget
News The NHS organisation responsible for the National Programme for IT spent a third of a billion pounds less than planned during 2007-08. 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 IT problems cost hospital over £7m
News The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has lost £7.2m because of problems implementing National Programme for IT patient-administration software. The system is being installed by BT as part of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and went live at...
[November 11, 2008, 6:30]
iSoft sale terms agreed
News iSoft, the troubled software supplier at the heart of the NHS's National Programme for IT, has agreed the terms of its sale. When Torex and iSoft mooted a merger in 2003, IBA complained to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), but the OFT subsequently...
[May 16, 2007, 18:28]
NPfIT to go local by August
News A top official of the NHS National Programme for IT has said the switch to more local responsibility should be largely complete by August. Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at Connecting for Health (CfH), said a number of key...
[June 15, 2007, 17:25]
Rollout of NHS e-record software faces more delays
News Further delays have beset the implementation of a key feature of the NHS National Programme for IT. This is at odds with a National Audit Office report released on 16 May, which said the implementation of electronic care records, the core of the...
[May 22, 2008, 9:27]
NHS chief promises delivery of Lorenzo
News Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT, has assured MPs that a core information-exchange system for the National Programme for IT will be available to hospitals next year. Granger told a Parliamentary Health Select Committee hearing on the...
[June 15, 2007, 15:24]
NHS dismisses calls for IT review
News A group of IT academics has failed in its latest request to instigate an independent review into the NHS's National Programme for IT. Last October the group of 23 computer experts claimed urgent action was needed to put the £12bn National Programme...
[February 6, 2007, 11:12]
NHS IT 'still on budget', but not at £6.2bn
News A government minister sparked controversy today when he was quoted as claiming that the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) was likely to cost more than twice its budgeted £6.2bn. Lord Warner told the FT that he made his comments to address...
[May 30, 2006, 16:55]
Doctors give NHS IT a cautious welcome
News Two-thirds of UK doctors are confident that the National Programme for IT will make a positive change to the NHS, a survey has found. Asked if they were sceptical that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) would "make a positive change", 66 percent...
[February 20, 2007, 11:48]
BT boasts of NPfIT progress
News BT has claimed its revised strategy for London is helping to get the National Programme for IT back on track in acute trusts. The Commons Health Select Committee heard on Thursday that BT's revised strategy to deliver services under the National...
[June 8, 2007, 10:32]
Summary care records open to receptionists
News Administrative staff will have access to the confidential summary care records, under rules for the NHS National Programme for IT. Paul Cundy, a member of the British Medical Association's IT committee, told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that...
[March 4, 2008, 13:05]
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]
Parliamentary report urges action on NPfIT
News The success of the NHS National Programme for IT is precarious, with key projects running late and suppliers struggling to deliver, according to a long-awaited report from Parliament's influential Public Accounts Committee.
[April 17, 2007, 10:17]
Doctors call for independent NPfIT review
News Doctors have voted in favour of an independent review of the NHS National Programme for IT. Victor Almeida, senior analyst at Kable, said: "The BMA are not the first to criticise the national programme for lacking a coherent clinical approach and...
[July 7, 2009, 8:49]
Fujitsu seeks payment for NHS IT work
News Fujitsu Services has submitted a claim for payment to the NHS, following its sacking in May from the National Programme for IT. CfH terminated Fujitsu's contract as local service provider to the NHS National Programme for IT in the south of England...
[September 2, 2008, 8:17]
NHS IT leaving doctors 'thoroughly disillusioned'
News An unachievable timetable for electronic patient records has damaged confidence in the National Programme for IT, according to the National Audit Office. Dr Chaand Nagpaul, GP negotiator with responsibility for IT at the British Medical Association...
[May 19, 2008, 9:01]
Lockheed pulls out of NHS IT bidding
News A spokesman for Lockheed Martin would only say: "I can confirm we have withdrawn from the NHS national programme for IT. A spokesman for the NHS' National Programme for IT would only confirm Lockheed has dropped out.
[September 1, 2003, 15:55]
Lib Dems urge immediate halt to NPfIT
News The Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for an immediate end to further spending on the NHS National Programme for IT. And it's goodbye to the National IT programme, which has and will waste billions of pounds," Lamb...
[September 17, 2008, 10:54]
