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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. NHS Connecting for Health is to allow individual healthcare organisations to decide who has access to confidential...
[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]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has overspent by £10.4bn, the Taxpayers' Alliance said in a statement on Friday. Aside from being two years after NPfIT started, this document, New NHS IT, states that the £2.3bn was over the first three...
[November 23, 2009, 12:15]
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]
Academics meeting Granger to discuss NHS IT
News The NHS IT director general Richard Granger has invited a group of dissident technology academics to a meeting on Thursday where he will reiterate his case for pressing forward with the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
[April 20, 2006, 11:15]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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. In 2003, 47 percent of all respondents thought NPfIT was a good use of NHS resources and 27 percent...
[November 26, 2007, 15:08]
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. This is part of the challenge in pushing a programme from the centre in what he described as "a variagated...
[June 15, 2007, 17:25]
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. Recognition of these "milestones" is detailed in a report by David Flory, director general for NHS finance, performance and...
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
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 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. Connecting for Health, the NHS department in charge of NPfIT, refused to comment on the news.
[May 16, 2007, 18:28]
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 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. But the NHS's chief executive David Nicholson turned down the academics' latest challenge, after Thomas called for...
[February 6, 2007, 11:12]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News The chancellor and the secretary of state for health have examined options for savings on the NHS IT system, and more details will be set out in due course," said a Connecting for Health statement on Monday.
[December 7, 2009, 13:51]
