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RSS CfHNHS slashes costs with VoIP upgrade
News Chard said the Connecting for Health (CfH) business case for the upgrade suggested NHS organisations could save around £6m per year on internal calls using the network. With 70 per cent of NHS call charges coming from... [23 Jul 2007]
NHS adds Vista in Microsoft deal
News Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS national IT upgrade programme, has renewed its custom licence agreement with Microsoft covering the provision of desktop services over the next three years. CfH has... [16 Jul 2007]
In brief: NHS IT chief to leave, Facebook "fogies", Vodafone wireless price cuts
News There remain a number of challenges ahead but I firmly believe that the leadership of the programme by Lord Hunt, David Nicholson and my colleagues within CFH will ensure these hurdles are overcome. The head of the £12bn... [18 Jun 2007]
Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News One government project that has been heavily criticised in terms of missed deadlines and inflated costs is the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), which is overseen by Connecting for Health (CfH). [18 May 2007]
Nurses want tablets on repeat prescription
News Senior clinical architect at NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), Dr Mike Bainbridge, said the MCA is something the organisation is seriously looking at. He told silicon.com CfH is looking at the... [21 Feb 2007]
IT upgrade will make NHS better, say doctors
News A spokesperson for Connecting for Health (CfH) - the NHS department running the NPfIT - said CfH has "taken great steps to improve our efforts to win the 'hearts and minds' of doctors, nurses and other... [20 Feb 2007]
NHS: 'No risk over smartcard sharing'
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has admitted smartcards were shared between staff at a Warwickshire hospital but denied that this compromised the confidentiality of patient data. Late last week, CfH -... [05 Feb 2007]
NHS helpdesk opens for business
News The local service desks in London and the South switched over to the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) Service Desk on Monday, completing a nationwide rollout that started on 15 December last year. The new service replaces... [16 Jan 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News Accenture has completed the handover of the NHS IT systems it was running to CSC, following its decision to pull out of two big contracts that formed part of Connecting for Heath (CfH), the giant NHS IT upgrade programme. [11 Jan 2007]
Troubled iSoft posts £14.6m loss
News The future of the troubled NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) software provider iSoft remains in doubt after the struggling UK software vendor announced it had recorded a loss for the last six months.iSoft made a loss of... [12 Dec 2006]
PDAs and laptops help nurses dispense drugs
News The NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) pilot is investigating how technology can bolster patient safety by giving nurses who dispense drugs better access to information. Nurses are being given PDAs and laptops to help... [15 Nov 2006]
Accenture pulls out of £12.4bn NHS IT project
News Accenture was awarded the two contracts to be the local service provider (LSP) for the Connecting for Health (CfH) programme in the East and North East regions back in 2003 but will now hand over the work to CSC, which... [28 Sep 2006]
NHS hires trainers to boost support for IT plans
News A vital part of this project is the education, training and skills development of staff, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said. Use of the mobile units will help to minimise disruption to frontline staff and is a... [27 Sep 2006]
NHS IT "sleepwalking towards disaster"
News The two MPs, Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP for Southport, are both members of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that recently criticised progress on... [11 Sep 2006]
Watchdog to reprobe NHS IT
News That figure includes the £6.2bn for the main fixed-price IT contracts; £382m for new projects; £239m on additional services; and £1.9bn on other expenditure by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) on centrally managed... [05 Sep 2006]
