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Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News Healthcare in the UK could be revolutionised by letting patients view their medical records online, according to senior NHS insiders. Giving patients access to electronic records will play a vital role in helping the... [21 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Launching the review shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, said in a statement: "Labour's handling of NHS IT has been shambolic. Their top-down, bureaucratic plans have been hugely disruptive to the... [10 Aug 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... [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... [24 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... [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... [01 Jun 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]
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... [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... [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... [26 Mar 2009]
Director shake-up: Saviour of NHS IT project?
News The agency in charge of the £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT is to be overhauled in an attempt to salvage the troubled project. The changes at NHS Connecting for Health are about increasing its... [09 Mar 2009]
NHS critical IT faults leap 80 per cent
News The number of severe faults in NHS computer systems has almost doubled over the last three years. Last year nationwide NHS computer systems suffered 820 severity one or critical faults, up from 488 in 2006. [02 Feb 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said in a statement: "With the UK deep in recession the government must ensure that Connecting for Health confronts the lessons of the past - the NHS IT... [27 Jan 2009]
GP2GP puts 5,000 doctors' records in rude health
News Patient records are now being electronically transferred between thousands of GP practices in England, thanks to the NHS's GP2GP system. The GP2GP system is one of 10 projects that make up the National Programme for IT,... [26 Jan 2009]
