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News GPs could soon be just an instant message away after a project to upgrade NHS workers' email paved the way for the introduction of IM at the health service. This week, the NHS announced it had completed... [01 May 2009]
Public sector pours £30m of Sugar on desktop deal
News The company will also provide support to the 45 public sector bodies covered in the deal including NHS and local education authorities. Viglen, the IT company owned by Sir Alan Sugar, has landed a hardware deal with the... [01 May 2009]
Primary Care Trust Saves Seven Days by Choosing Dell to Deploy 288 Desktops in 48 Hours
White Paper NHS Gloucestershire needed to deploy 288 desktops at its headquarters in an environmentally friendly way - but had just 48 hours to do it. NHS Gloucestershire knew it could rely on Dell to manage the... [29 Apr 2009]
350,000 NHS email accounts Exchanged in massive migration
News The NHS has finished the migration of more than 350,000 NHS email accounts to Microsoft Exchange. By the time the project finishes in 2013 every NHS employee - about 1.2 million people -... [29 Apr 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News The NHS project to digitise medical records in England has six months to shape up - or else. The Care Records Service project is four years behind schedule and NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told... [28 Apr 2009]
Health trust dodges NPfIT with £2.4m iSoft deal
News Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has rejected the National Programme for IT in choosing a supplier for the refresh of its patient administration system (PAS). Heatherwood and Wexham Park... [23 Apr 2009]
Photos: Doctor, doctor - your receptionist looks like a touchscreen
Photo King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with more than 6,000 staff providing around 700,000 patient appointments per year. About 80 per cent of... [23 Apr 2009]
Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust Uses Imprivata OneSign to Cure Password Management Ills
White Paper Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust is located at the Tameside General Hospital in Ashton-Under-Lyne. The Trust was faced with a growing password management problem: staff had a large number of different log-ins... [23 Apr 2009]
"I am frankly not much excited by technology per se"
Comment Creese worked first as a developer for an information centre for the NHS management board, then as a programmer for the British Medical Association. "'Computing' really wasn't something I would have wanted to do". [22 Apr 2009]
£7.2bn savings: IT and back office feel the Treasury knife
News The review highlights savings of 20 to 30 per cent on like-for-like services gained through the NHS Shared Business Services Centre, the joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria that provides back office... [22 Apr 2009]
NHS gets 100,000 locked down USB sticks
News Following a series of data breaches that have dogged the public sector, the NHS is to take delivery of 100,000 secure USB sticks. The SafeStick USB sticks from vendor BlockMaster will be distributed to... [17 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News One of the only two suppliers left for the £12.7bn project to revamp NHS IT has staked its commitment to the project by signing a new deal with the health service. BTGS has been renegotiating one such deal - its existing... [06 Apr 2009]
Should you still be scared of malware?
News A number of organisations in recent months have been finding out about those actions: the UK Parliament, Barts and the London NHS Trust, five Sheffield hospitals and the Ministry of Defence have all been hit by viruses... [06 Apr 2009]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News The agency overseeing the £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT will have failed to spend £331m of its capital budget for 2008 according to forecasts. It will be the fourth year in a row that NHS IT body Connecting... [02 Apr 2009]
Westminster insiders on why gov't IT is doomed
News It was a view echoed by Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee and a fierce critic of the £12.7bn programme to modernise NHS IT. Westminster's approach to running... [26 Mar 2009]
