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NHS IT chief resigns after brief tenure
News The man in charge of NHS IT has stepped down after less than three months in the job. Effectively the largest civilian IT project in world history, NPfIT is a massive upgrade of NHS IT systems. Swindells only took the role at the end of January...
[April 15, 2008, 13:26]
NHS IT project will face inquiry
News An independent inquiry will be held later this year into the government's multi-billion pound upgrade of the NHS IT systems, which has been widely criticised by experts. As reported last week, a group of UK computer academics met with Richard...
[April 24, 2006, 17:40]
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. In order to meet their costs, hospitals and other NHS facilities...
[May 30, 2006, 16:55]
NHS IT report was watered down
News A key report into the NHS's massive IT upgrade programme was watered down by the Government before publication, it has emerged. A warning that there are "insufficient trainers to train NHS staff", became a warning that a lack of knowledge could be...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
NHS IT project is doing OK, says Audit Office
News After months of speculation, the NHS and the director general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, have escaped censure from the National Audit Office (NAO) which published its report on the NHS National Programme for IT on Friday.
[June 16, 2006, 12:30]
NHS IT project told to improve or risk break-up
News Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said in a statement: "With the UK deep in recession the government must ensure that Connecting for Health confronts the lessons of the past — the NHS IT project can't be paid for with a...
[January 28, 2009, 16:39]
NHS IT chief warns against local budget cuts
News The financial meltdown in some healthcare authorities across the country will not hit funding for the rollout of the £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, according to NHS IT director general Richard Granger.
[May 26, 2006, 9:50]
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 IT agency faces restructure
News It is part of a shake-up of the way the NHS IT is delivered, with responsibility falling to six directors reporting to director-general of informatics, Christine Connelly, and chief information officer of the NHS Information Centre, Tim Straughan.
[June 25, 2009, 14:36]
NHS IT problems
Blog Only last week Lord Warner was claiming NHS patients would be able to opt out of the massive new NPfIT database, but today the Guardian reports this to be absolute nonsense. Now, as a former worker for the NHS, I well understand the need for the...
[November 1, 2006, 11:59]
NHS IT project costs soar
News The NHS National Programme for IT will create an electronic booking system for patients, followed by an electronic patient record scheme. This will allow doctors to access a patient's records from anywhere within the NHS -- be it their local...
[October 12, 2004, 9:40]
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If that is the NHS' view on 23 experts who are trying to aid...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
NHS IT delays cost Accenture £260m
News The body in charge of the £6.2bn NHS IT project has called for "key personnel changes" at Accenture after the outsourcing company announced a $450m (£260m) loss on its health service contracts due to delays in hitting delivery deadlines.
[April 3, 2006, 9:30]
NHS IT leaving doctors 'thoroughly disillusioned'
News Slipping deadlines for new IT systems and the premature release of systems that are not fit for purpose has been deeply frustrating for NHS staff, leaving many doctors thoroughly disillusioned with the programme.
[May 19, 2008, 9:01]
NHS IT timescale questioned as iSoft CEO resigns
News Much of the "negative speculation and comment" referred to by Whiston stems from iSoft’s sluggish progress in delivering on the NHS’s Connecting For Health programme. But insiders claim that the delivery targets agreed between iSoft and the NHS...
[June 15, 2006, 9:40]
NHS IT initiative on track, according to director
News The person leading the digitisation of the NHS in England has described its progress as "pretty much on track". Director general of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, Richard Granger, was speaking at the Improvement and Development Agency e...
[September 30, 2004, 15:30]
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 IT loses another leading light
News The departure of a leading official responsible for the NHS IT programme means the scheme has lost its second clinical chief in six months. Professor Aidan Halligan, the joint senior responsible owner for the £6bn NHS IT programme, is to leave his...
[September 23, 2004, 14:10]
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]
NHS IT rollout 'needs proper evaluation'
News Poor evaluation of the IT services and infrastructure being rolled out across the NHS risks undermining support for Whitehall's unprecedented levels of spending on the programme, according to research published on Tuesday.
[July 27, 2004, 14:35]
