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NPfIT Initiative Offers GPs Greater Choice Of Tech
News GPSoC was announced in February and is designed to make sure patients see the full benefits of technology upgrades made through the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NPfIT projects supported by the first contacts include the electronic...
[August 1, 2007, 9:01]
NPfIT Chief Claims Successes
News He cited the Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) as a "very significant success" of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in bringing about efficiency gains. He also conceded that brownfield sites, of which only about 10 percent...
[June 13, 2007, 15:42]
NPfIT To Go Local By August
News Under the NLOP, CfH retains responsibility for the commercial and contractual aspects of NPfIT, while local organisations have taken over responsibility for implementing the objectives. He acknowledged there has been some tension with NHS...
[June 15, 2007, 17:25]
New Demands For NPfIT Review
News Describing the NPfIT as being "botched from the start", he added: "There wasn't a proper system review at an early stage, which leads to building things that are not necessarily in line with user needs.
[July 12, 2007, 12:25]
Doctors Losing Enthusiasm For NPfIT
News The survey, in which pollster Medix received responses from 900 doctors over a week in late January 2005, shows that fewer are ready to get excited over NPfIT than in its previous survey of July 2004.
[February 8, 2005, 16:35]
Wanless Urges Review Of NPfIT
News The new report claims that, despite the increased level of investment in IT in the health service, the problems and delays with the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) have the potential to seriously undermine the productivity gains Wanless...
[September 13, 2007, 10:26]
NHS Report Hails NPfIT Milestones
News The report claims that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) local ownership programme (NLOP) has already given strategic health authorities significantly greater influence and control over the rollout and implementation of the NPfIT in their areas.
[September 3, 2007, 14:54]
BT Boasts Of NPfIT Progress
News The Commons Health Select Committee heard on Thursday that BT's revised strategy to deliver services under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to acute hospitals is "proving a success". Witnesses from the medical research community told the MPs...
[June 8, 2007, 10:32]
Parliamentary Report Urges Action On NPfIT
News There is a question mark hanging over the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the most far-reaching and expensive health information technology project in history," said committee chair Edward Leigh on 17 April.
[April 17, 2007, 10:17]
Burn: NPfIT Has 'failed So Far'
Blog There have been plenty of successes right across the board in the health sector, but I would say [NPfIT] has failed [so far]," Burn added. At last month's Government UK IT Summit, Andy Burn, head of information management and technology planning...
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
NPfIT Doublespeak Of The Day
Blog A couple of days ago the Guardian ran a story alleging that the NHS was seeking "alternative software suppliers" for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), following a less than sterling performance from subcontracted suppliers iSoft and Cerner.
[March 6, 2007, 9:56]
Burn: NPfIT Has 'failed So Far'
Blog Comment DWP may "handle 100 billion transactions a week" - but how does it handle them? The Peterborough office has not paid at least one, straightforward, Maternity Allowance due to start at the end of January ("we are very short of staff - there is a six...
[June 2, 2007, 9:27]
Doctors Losing Enthusiasm For NPfIT
Talkback What do you expect this is the medical sector, its highly contrevercial at best, can they agree on accupuncture, no - well it works. Then look at the tech boom were having, with so many standards and new technologies comming out, security at a low...
[February 8, 2005, 20:34]
New NPfIT Minister Announced
News It sees him take over responsibility for Connecting for Health and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) from Lord Philip Hunt, who moved to the Ministry of Justice in June. Ben Bradshaw MP's new role as minister of state for health services was...
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
NPfIT Doublespeak Of The Day
Blog Comment "What got me was the marvellously disingenuous bit at the bottom of the reply: "Already we have seen the large scale delivery of systems which are providing better, quicker, safer healthcare, many of which have been on time and all of which are...
[March 8, 2007, 21:34]
Study Highlights NPfIT Concerns
News NHS staff believe that financial deficits and poor communication are hindering implementation of the National Programme for IT, according to a new study. Led by King's College London and published in the British Medical Journal on 17 May, 2007, the...
[May 17, 2007, 11:00]
CSC Scuppers ISoft Sale
Blog CSC, the primary contractor subcontracting work on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to iSoft, has blocked iSoft's proposed sale to the Australian healthcare firm IBA. Apparently it feels the sale would be bad for NPfIT.
[May 30, 2007, 13:09]
Doctors Lose Faith In NHS IT Project
News A new survey shows that doctors' enthusiasm for England's NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is continuing to decline. The proportion of doctors believing that NPfIT will improve clinical care, at least in the long term, has remained fairly...
[November 22, 2006, 8:57]
Isle Of Man Snubs ISoft
News The Isle of Man has snubbed medical software that is central to the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the UK. While the Isle of Man is located just 30 miles from British shores, it is not part of the UK, and so it is not obliged to follow...
[March 23, 2007, 12:19]
NHS Witholds BT Payment
News The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is holding back almost a third of the initial payments due to its main supplier BT, it confirmed on Tuesday. There was a reduction in payments to BT due to some availability issues with the spine," said an...
[October 5, 2004, 16:10]
