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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. Who would trust this government with a national database of health records," he said.
[September 15, 2008, 16:53]
Six deals done for NHS IT
News Six IT suppliers have agreed pricing structures for business with the NHS, the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) announced on Thursday. The arrangements are a further example of how the National Programme for IT is gaining benefits for the taxpayer...
[August 12, 2004, 16:40]
NHS IT chief to step down
News The head of the controversial £12bn NHS IT modernisation project, the National Programme for IT, is to leave his post. Richard Granger will resign as chief executive of Connecting for Health (CfH), the part of the NHS which runs the National...
[June 18, 2007, 10:14]
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]
Doctors call for independent NPfIT review
News Doctors have voted in favour of an independent review of the NHS National Programme for IT. The motion, proposed by Dr Gordon Mathews, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Buckinghamshire Hosptials NHS Trust, condemned the "continuing waste of money...
[July 7, 2009, 8:49]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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 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. However this should be seen in the context of much early success in the national programme, which...
[October 5, 2004, 16:10]
Health trust ditches NHS e-record scheme
News A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care-record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.
[July 23, 2008, 9:09]
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]
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]
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]
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]
