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NHS Computer Network Faces Privacy Danger
News The forthcoming encryption-based NHS communications network could soon provide a simple means for government agencies and others to gain access to confidential information about the British public, according to experts.
[November 26, 1999, 17:02]
NHS Will Switch To Outlook
News The NHS will be moving its internal email and directory system onto Microsoft Outlook, according to supplier Cable & Wireless. Around 260,000 NHS staff use NHSmail, which, although it is accessible from any internet-connected computer, is a secure...
[July 9, 2007, 16:48]
NHS Rolls Out Infection-resistant Keyboards
News The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer. The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) in a...
[May 8, 2008, 8:46]
NHS Procures Encryption Software
News The agency, which is responsible for the NHS National Programme for IT, has completed the national procurement of McAfee's SafeBoot software from Trustmarque Solutions. This covers licensing and maintenance so that NHS organisations can receive it...
[April 3, 2008, 9:49]
U.K. NHS Trust Saves £46,000 In One Year With Timely Software Updates
White Papers To improve efficiency and reduce costs, managers at Blackpool, Fylde, and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust needed new tools to automate software updates. The trust, which is located in north-west England, assessed Novell ZenWorks before choosing to deploy...
[May 7, 2008, 0:00]
NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun
White Papers NHS Tayside provides primary care and secondary healthcare services to a population of approximately 400,000 in the Tayside region of Scotland. Sun and business partner Access Computing helped NHS Tayside consolidate and upgrade its data storage...
[April 16, 2008, 0:00]
NHS Top IT Job To Be Split In Two
News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post — filled by Richard Granger until January this year. The decision to double up the IT roles was taken as...
[April 29, 2008, 8:34]
NHS Patient Information Open To Computer Attack
News NHS delegates came to this conclusion at the second IMPACT (In Medical Practice Action to Co-ordinate Technology) conference held in Birmingham yesterday. Unless encryption is adopted it can only be a matter of time until there is a security breach...
[October 26, 1999, 14:31]
NHS Takes The Open Source Pill
Talkback The NHS seems to be getting a little more intelligent all we got to do now is get the rest of that darn insulting M$ Corp deal canned and tranquility can rule the roost as a member of the trust at my local NHS hospital it is nice to see sense...
[December 6, 2005, 12:25]
NHS Patient Data Sold On EBay
News An NHS trust is investigating how one of its hard drives containing confidential information was sold online. The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is trying to find out how one of its computers full of confidential medical information was sold...
[September 17, 2007, 14:18]
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 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]
News Burst: NHS Patient Network Open To Attack
News In light of increasing data security breaches, National Health Service representatives have called NHS computer security as "An accident waiting to happen. NHS representatives have concluded that patient information held on NHS computers is...
[October 26, 1999, 11:26]
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 NHS has singled out picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), Choose and Book, and the electronic prescription...
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
NHS Security Compromised By Boss?
News Alasdair Liddle chief executive of the NHS is reported by Computer Weekly to be angry that the NHS' database and mail network, NHSNet is based on the "obsolete and expensive" X400 messaging standard instead of SMTP.
[August 6, 1999, 12:42]
Millennium: NHS Executive Unable To Guarantee Patient Safety
News The accounts committee headed by conservative MP David Davis draws some worrying conclusions about the NHS' ability to deal with the millennium bug despite assurances from the NHS executive that "systems will either be ready, or contingency plans...
[August 19, 1998, 16:17]
NHS Loses Thousands Of Smartcards
Blog The BBC reports that NHS staff have lost at least 4,147 of the cards, which give access to confidential patient records when inserted into health staff PCs. The NHS insists the risk to patient data is minimal, as the cards are a form of two-factor...
[February 6, 2008, 16:36]
NHS Starts Desktop Linux Tests
News The NHS is to begin trials of a desktop Linux software suite in a move it says could free up money for the frontline health service and save taxpayers millions of pounds. NHS director general of IT Richard Granger, said in a statement: "Our...
[December 8, 2003, 9:20]
NHS To Allow Opt-outs From Database
News The NHS National Programme for IT has said that patients can opt out of having their records kept on databases only in 'extreme circumstances' A NPfIT spokesperson told Government Computing News on Monday: "In extreme circumstances, if someone can...
[January 18, 2005, 15:50]
NHS Patient Data 'insecure', Says Group
News An information policy think tank has called for the NHS to improve its safeguards on patient privacy, charging that the current system allows thousands of unauthorised people to gain access to patient information every year.
[February 5, 2003, 10:44]
