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NHS security breach in Scotland revealed
News NHS Education for Scotland has agreed to sharpen up its data security practices after having an unencrypted laptop stolen. Malcolm Wright, chief executive of NHS Education for Scotland, has signed an undertaking confirming that the organisation...
[September 10, 2009, 9:56]
NHS takes the open source pill
News The NHS is aiming to save £75m over three years as part of a new software deal with Novell that will make it easier for health service IT departments to switch to open source. The £21.8m enterprise-wide deal, signed by NHS Connecting for Health...
[December 5, 2005, 14:30]
NHS hits million electronic prescriptions milestone
News More than a million prescriptions have now been transmitted electronically as part of the £6.2bn modernisation of NHS IT systems. Tim Donohoe, NHS Connecting for Health group programme director, said in a statement: "This is a significant milestone...
[May 17, 2006, 10:40]
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 trust finds lost CDs holding 18,000 staff details
News A London NHS hospital trust has found four discs, containing 18,000 staff details, that had been thought lost. The discs were handed into the finance department of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust last Friday after a letter was sent out to staff...
[September 26, 2008, 15:13]
NHS trusts outsource financials and procurement IT
News A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health Authorities in the north-east of England has outsourced its financials and procurement IT in a contract worth £16.45m over 10 years. Called the North East Patches Shared System Group (NEP), the...
[December 24, 2007, 9:15]
NHS software provider feeling sick
News Software developer iSoft is laying off ten percent of its staff and revising its accounts, in the wake of troubles with the multi-billion pound upgrade of the NHS IT system. The company is providing software for the NHS National Programme for IT...
[June 9, 2006, 16:25]
NHS to overhaul patient-record access
News The NHS is to overhaul the way staff access electronic medical records following concerns the existing system is unethical. Patients will now have to give permission every time NHS employees want to access their electronic Summary Care Records...
[September 22, 2008, 9:05]
NHS delays switch to Outlook
News The NHS has warned hundreds of thousands of staff that it has been forced to push back an email upgrade to next year. Due to start at the end of this month, the move from Mirapoint to Microsoft Exchange 2007 will mean NHS staff can access new...
[September 19, 2008, 9:01]
NHS trust loses 18,000 staff details
News A London NHS hospital trust has admitted to losing almost 18,000 staff details on four CDs. The payroll details were lost on 22 July while in transit between the salaries and wages department of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and payroll company...
[September 17, 2008, 12:41]
NHS IT failures 'left babies unvaccinated'
News The NHS has defended Connecting for Health, its multi-billion pound IT upgrade, amid reports of problems that left thousands of babies at risk of infection. The Observer reported that as many as 3,000 children had not received important...
[February 27, 2006, 12:45]
NHS hits back at critics over IT delays
News The NHS has defended its multi-billion pound IT project, claiming that recent delays are the fault of companies it has contracted to provide software and services. In a statement released on Monday, NHS Connecting for Health, the body responsible...
[January 31, 2006, 16:35]
NHS Trust Looks to the Web to Build the Foundation for Better Patient Care
White Papers Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust (WWLNT) has taken important steps towards the realisation of electronic patient records by using the Microsoft .NET Framework, and implementing Case Notes, a Web-based system from Microsoft partner CSW, to...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
NHS to buy computers from Dixons
Blog According to ChannelWeb, the NHS is going to buy more than 60,000 PCs and laptops from Dell, HP and, er, DSGi, a.k.a.the Dixons Group (PC World, Currys etc). Frankly, it's Friday afternoon and I can't think of anything to say about this that isn't...
[August 15, 2008, 16:43]
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 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]
NHS rolls out mammoth email system
News From Tuesday, staff in 10 NHS trusts will have access to NHSmail, a new email and directory service being rolled out across the entire organisation to replace the 7,000 different systems currently in use.
[December 10, 2002, 15:33]
NHS takes the open source pill
Talkback It confirms that Richard Granger has his eye firmly focused on the NHS big picture where savings and efficiency mated with leveraging the massive IT and other economies of scale in complex social environments will in time deliver phenomenal cost...
[December 16, 2005, 15:04]
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 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]
