NHS
RSS NHSVoice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News Central and local government departments, NHS organisations and other public bodies will be provided with telecoms goods, services and client side support under the framework agreement put out by Buying Solutions, the... [10 Jul 2009]
Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients
Photo Photo credit: Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust A number of NHS hospitals have already deployed RFID for tracking purposes, with the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in Scotland using the tags to keep tabs... [09 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT - put it under the private sector knife. Under the proposals reported in The Times yesterday, the... [07 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment While the NHS has made some attempts to secure its networks, the onus now falls on health trusts to make sure patient data is safe, says Alan Hunt. Now that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is promising to get... [07 Jul 2009]
End of the line for NHS IT agency?
News Consultation is to take place over the future of the agency that has overseen the £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT. It is part of a shake-up of the way that NHS IT is delivered, with responsibility falling to... [24 Jun 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News Whitehall already offshores a limited amount of work, including some back office operations under the NHS Shared Business Services Centre run by Steria and the Department of Health. The centre's performance has been... [24 Jun 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News The NHS Care Records Service (CRS) is aimed at providing doctors with instant electronic access to patients' medical records, cutting off the paper trail that sees medical professionals searching out documents stored... [23 Jun 2009]
'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'
News Cutbacks in technology spending are the wrong remedy for the NHS in an economic downturn, according to a junior minister at the Department of Health. Instead, the NHS should embrace the efficiencies IT... [22 Jun 2009]
How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
News The government was warned back in 2004 that immediate action was needed to fix problems in the £12.7bn programme to revamp NHS IT, official reports have revealed. According to a 2004 strategic assessment, one of the... [19 Jun 2009]
Christine Connelly
CIO Profile As chief information officer for the Department of Health, Christine Connelly is in charge of the department's ambitious £12.7bn programme to revamp NHS IT, the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - one of the biggest IT... [01 Jun 2009]
David Williams
CIO Profile Prior to that Williams worked for the NHS in Gwent, South Wales, at first dealing with patient administration but moving on to handle IT at a range of clinical departments before taking the helm of the entire IT department. [01 Jun 2009]
Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust Gains New Productivity, Efficiency and Insight With Enterprise Application Upgrade
White Paper Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust wanted to leverage technology advances to build a scalable, resilient, flexible, secure IT environment with near-100% uptime and gain timely, usable financial data to support decision makers... [30 May 2009]
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Provides Quick and Easy Access to Critical Information
White Paper Beset by a number of technical challenges, the Trust recognized that it needed to overhaul both its Web site and its intranet. With a static HTML Web site and an intranet that was both unsuitable and unsupported, updates were... [30 May 2009]
National Health Service Maximizes IT Value With Tailored Technical Guidance
White Paper The National Health Service (NHS) is the United Kingdom's primary healthcare organization, providing care to approximately 60 million citizens. While the NHS has a central IT agency that finances some... [30 May 2009]
NHS warned: It's time to beat the breaches
News The Information Commissioner's Office is putting pressure on the NHS to improve data security at its facilities, following a string of breaches. The ICO has also written to the permanent secretary about a number of... [26 May 2009]
