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Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News One government project that has been heavily criticised in terms of missed deadlines and inflated costs is the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), which is overseen by Connecting for Health (CfH). [18 May 2007]
iSoft bought by Oz healthcare company
News Connecting for Health, the NHS department in charge of NPfIT, refused to comment on the news. iSoft, the troubled software supplier at the heart of the NHS' National Programme for IT (NPfIT), has agreed the terms of its sale. [17 May 2007]
Urgent action needed on £12bn NHS project
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, which has published a report on the progress made in implementing the NHS IT programme, said the Department of Health must "get a grip" on what it and the NHS are spending. [17 Apr 2007]
Atos Origin NHS contract not in best of health
News Atos Origin has insisted it will continue to work with the Department of Health and the NHS despite the suspension of a key health service contract. The spokesperson added: [Atos Origin, the Department for Health and the NHS] continue to work... [16 Apr 2007]
Co-op inks £100m extension to Xansa deal
News In a separate announcement Xansa's NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) joint-venture with the UK's Department of Health has been awarded a £19m deal to provide finance, accounting and payroll services to NHS Professionals - an NHS agency... [02 Apr 2007]
DoH in £20m CSC outsourcing extension
News The UK's Department of Health (DoH) has agreed a £20m extension to an IT outsourcing deal with CSC. CSC also already holds three of the key lead service provider contracts for the NHS' £12.4bn national Connecting for Health IT project. [30 Mar 2007]
Manx healthcare gets a shot in the arm
News As a self governing community, the island's Department of Health and Social Security chose a different approach to upgrading its healthcare IT systems than other parts of the UK. Allan Paterson, the Isle of Man government's CIO, told silicon.com... [29 Mar 2007]
IT upgrade will make NHS better, say doctors
News A spokesperson for Connecting for Health (CfH) - the NHS department running the NPfIT - said CfH has "taken great steps to improve our efforts to win the 'hearts and minds' of doctors, nurses and other health professionals". [20 Feb 2007]
NHS: 'No risk over smartcard sharing'
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has admitted smartcards were shared between staff at a Warwickshire hospital but denied that this compromised the confidentiality of patient data. Late last week, CfH - the NHS department administering the IT... [05 Feb 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News The NHS said that on the same day contracts were signed between CSC and the Department of Health for the delivery of "new and improved" IT services for the NHS in the East and North East, together with the restatement of the contract to provide... [11 Jan 2007]
Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News Department of Health - £116m Among the biggest spenders were the NHS, which spent £1.4bn, not including the £1.1bn spent by Connecting for Health, the NHS IT upgrade that's underway. National Health Service - £1.4bn [10 Jan 2007]
WEEE: Here at last
News Roberts said: "We believe that recycling should be perceived as a last resort, especially when items like PCs can be refurbished and used for years by schools and health projects that currently simply cannot afford new computers. [02 Jan 2007]
£390m ambulance radio upgrade rollout begins
News Over 18,000 Tetra radio terminals will be installed, which the Department of Health (D0H) said is the largest single deployment of Tetra radios anywhere in the world for an emergency response service. [27 Dec 2006]
Sex clinic gives good text
News Ivens added that the system is a response to the Department of Health's (DoH) directive to ensure that patients can book medical appointments within two working days. The genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and sexual health clinics are to run a four... [30 Nov 2006]
Wi-fi radiation claims take government by surprise
News The Department of Health appears to have been wrong-footed by an MP who called for an investigation into whether wi-fi networks pose a danger to health. Dr Ian Gibson, former chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, last week... [30 Nov 2006]
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