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Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News BT and CSC are now left as the only suppliers for the CRS, after both Accenture and Fujitsu have pulled out of delivering the system. It added that a focus on trying to create a "common solution" between trusts in London... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told by the Department of Health they must speed up the rollout of key Care Record Service systems by November this year or risk seeing the scheme broken up. Johnson will also have... [10 Jun 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News The Care Records Service project is four years behind schedule and NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told they must speed up the roll out of key systems by November this year. The NHS project to digitise medical... [28 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) scheme currently has just two local suppliers, BT Global Services (BTGS) and CSC, and has been recently dogged by suggestions the former was looking to pull out of its involvement... [06 Apr 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News Difficulties with PAS rollouts have been compounded by the decision by Accenture and Fujitsu to walk away from the NPfIT, leaving only CSC and BT as the two main suppliers for the programme. Currently, the patient... [27 Jan 2009]
NHS IT to benefit Southern England - at last
Comment After the contact termination, there has been speculation that BT or CSC (the prime contractor in the North of England) would take over the contract for the South. But Alan Brown says mental health care... [30 Oct 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News Fujitsu will continue to deliver the system in the south until it departs in November and health authorities are now in negotiations with Bath about whether it will use its own provider to implement the Millennium care records system or... [22 Jul 2008]
Fujitsu ditches £896m NHS IT contract
News BT or CSC is thought to be favourite to take over responsibility for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS in southern England but Fujitsu will continue to run the existing systems until its... [29 May 2008]
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]
The Executive CIO: David Weymouth, ex-CIO Barclays
Comment Brinley Platts, author of the CSC Leading Edge Forum research Building Effective Executive IT Teams and chairman of CIO Development.com, says: "They are brought in to ride shotgun. Weymouth became a regional director in... [21 Sep 2006]
NHS data centre repairs "almost complete"
News Yesterday IT experts from CSC and its sub-contractor, Hitachi, were working round the clock to restore access to data centres affected by a power supply interruption. This follows an interruption to the computer services... [02 Aug 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader And the PAC meeting heard that NHS Trusts in the northwest of England may now also have to fork out £37m to CSC to get out of a similar contractual obligation. Just this month we can see evidence of that... [27 Jun 2006]
NHS IT programme set to ditch failing suppliers
News Granger would not name the failing contractors but said it is not any of the four main local service providers - Accenture, BT, CSC and Fujitsu - building the necessary IT infrastructure in the five regions around the... [23 Mar 2005]
Royal Mail CIO David Burden
Comment He arrived at the Royal Mail just as it was in the process of undertaking a massive transformation project, which included outsourcing the IT to CSC's Prism alliance. It's the day after the England... [17 Jun 2004]
Accenture and CSC get £2bn Xmas present from NHS
News CSC and Accenture have won contracts worth almost £2bn for the regional delivery of the NHS Care Records Service in England. CSC has won the £973m contract for the North West and West... [23 Dec 2003]
