NPfIT

NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?

Comment But, asks Nick Heath, are the Tories right to bail on the NPfIT? The government's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has struggled to make its revamped vision of healthcare IT a reality - but the question... [07 Jul 2009]

End of the line for NHS IT agency?

News The new DoH informatics directorate will assume responsibility for staff within the CfH and delivering the 10 projects under the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) from July. Consultation is to take place over the... [24 Jun 2009]

Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?

News In a series of gateway reviews published between 2002 and 2007, and released to the public for the first time last week, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) set out the difficulties that have faced the National Programme for IT... [23 Jun 2009]

'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'

News In response to a question from silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, Darzi admitted that both the NHS and suppliers needed to speed the implementation of the National Project for IT (NPfIT). NPfIT is one of... [22 Jun 2009]

How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails

News Fast forward to 2009, and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is facing a number of difficulties: key projects to digitise patient records are running four years late, two major suppliers have walked away from 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]

Health trust dodges NPfIT with £2.4m iSoft deal

News The trust opted to go with iSoft rather than wait for a PAS update through the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The rollout of PASes to health trusts has been beset by delays and the NPfIT contract... [23 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]

NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend

News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has been a longstanding critic of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and member Richard Bacon said he is amazed that the agency was on course to spend... [02 Apr 2009]

Director shake-up: Saviour of NHS IT project?

News After years of delays and rising costs on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the body which oversees the programme, Connecting for Health (CfH), will see its remit reduced to supporting a new organisation overseeing... [09 Mar 2009]

NHS critical IT faults leap 80 per cent

News The NHS attributed the rise to teething problems among the growing number of systems being rolled out across the NHS as part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - parts of which have suffered technical... [02 Feb 2009]

Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project

News The rollout of the CRS to acute hospital trusts is among the biggest of the 10 IT projects that make up the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Difficulties with PAS rollouts have been compounded by the decision... [27 Jan 2009]

GP2GP puts 5,000 doctors' records in rude health

News Speaking to silicon.com for a recent round-up of the NPfIT projects, Paul Cundy, former chairman of the British Medical Association's IT Committee, described GP2GP as "world-beating tech", which works "very successfully". [26 Jan 2009]

Is this make or break for £12.7bn NHS IT project?

News One of the two remaining main suppliers for the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), BT Global Services (BTGS), today said it expects to take a £340m writedown on earnings from 15 of its 17 largest contracts due to... [22 Jan 2009]

Inbox: "Stupendous incompetence" from DfT

Comment No wonder no one believes a word they say about the NHS NPfIT [National Program for IT]. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. [19 Dec 2008]

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Clinical NPfIT Project Manager

Please DO NOT apply if you don't have a clinical background Experience * End to end project management experience * Knowledge of Prince 2, ideally ...

Data Migration / Data Specialist

My NHS customer is currently deploying RiO v5.1, a new NPfIT clinical system for a 2010 Go Live. As a result they are recruiting extra resource for ...

Project Manager

NHS Project Manager - 200 - 300 per dayMy North East NHS client has an urgent requirement for 3 Project Managers on a contract basis until end of ...

NHS Project Manager

You will be directly managing all stages of the NPfIT project whilst considering the performance management of various systems suppliers as part of ...

CRS System Manager

You will be responsible for the smooth running of the Millennium system and day to day management of the relationship with the system suppliers (BT, ...


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