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NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment We may be five years or more away from the nirvana of having 50 million patient records on a secure national database but the NHS's national broadband network, N3, already allows health trusts to securely use some... [07 Jul 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News Today the deployment of the CRS is four years behind schedule and is not likely to be implemented across every NHS health trust in England and Wales until 2014 or 2015. The NHS Care Records Service (CRS)... [23 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]
NHS extends electronic booking contract
News According to the NHS, more than 50 per cent of referrals are now made using Choose and Book which is aimed at reducing the time taken for referral appointments to be made and allowing patients to... [12 Feb 2009]
NHS critical IT faults leap 80 per cent
News A spokesman for the NHS Connecting for Health service delivery team said: "When you deploy a national system such as The Spine or Choose and Book, you will get some glitches as problems emerge and are... [02 Feb 2009]
How IT is helping the NHS save the planet
News Find out more about the 10 key NHS IT projects NHS Care Records Service Choose and Book The Electronic Prescription Service N3 national broadband network ... [29 Jan 2009]
Choose and Book giving GPs a headache
News The Choose and Book system is designed to allow NHS patients in England to choose a hospital, date and time for their outpatient appointments and more than 13 million referrals have been... [28 Jan 2009]
Kurzweil's future, iPhone love, NHS IT, ID card insecurity
News Also proving popular with readers this month was senior reporter Nick Heath's round-up of where we're at with the 10 projects that make up the £12.7bn NHS IT upgrade programme - including the Choose and... [25 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Find out more about the 10 key NHS IT projects NHS Care Records Service Choose and Book The Electronic Prescription Service N3 national broadband network ... [10 Nov 2008]
NHS failing to give patients the tech they want
News The NHS, however, has some web successes: the well-established web appointment booking services, Choose and Book has been running since 2004. The NHS is lagging behind other industries... [24 Oct 2008]
£11m for learner dentists' IT
News The Department of Health, NHS Connecting for Health and the Dental IT programme board announced the cash injection yesterday, with an extra £11m allocated for technology used to train dentistry students. [09 Oct 2008]
Ethics, complexity spark U-turn on NHS records
News Previously, patients had to choose between two options on how their SCRs were treated - either allowing the records to be shared with personnel only with their permission or to be shared with any authorised... [19 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more often work... [30 Apr 2008]
NHS Choose and Book has health scare
News The launch of the latest version of the NHS Choose and Book online referral and booking system has been postponed due to technical problems. NHS Connecting for Health took the decision... [17 Apr 2008]
NHS admits thousands of smartcards have gone walkies
News More than 4,000 NHS smartcards used to access a range of electronic systems and applications have gone missing since they were introduced two and a half years ago. Of the 221 NHS bodies that replied to... [06 Feb 2008]
