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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. Recognition of these "milestones" is detailed in a report by David Flory, director general for NHS finance, performance and...
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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. The programme has been lambasted by some IT experts, mostly over the issues of cost and security, but the NHS has...
[February 20, 2007, 11:48]
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 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. Frank Burns, the former chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust...
[June 15, 2007, 15:24]
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]
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]
ISoft Halts Legal Action Against CSC
News Troubled software company iSoft has called a halt to legal proceedings initiated against Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the local service providers for the NHS National Programme for IT, after the latter blocked its takeover by Australian...
[June 7, 2007, 16:59]
