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NHS data left lacking encryption
News Many trusts will be unable to meet the local targets as set by strategic health authorities (SHAs) as they had been told not to begin the work until Connecting for Health (CfH), the body co-ordinating NHS IT, procured an encryption package - which... [24 Jun 2008]
Fujitsu ditches £896m NHS IT contract
News Negotiations between NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) and Fujitsu broke down over how much it would cost to alter the systems it has been deploying in the south of England. A spokesman for CfH said: "Regrettably and despite best efforts by all... [29 May 2008]
NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
News There was resentment among some staff that CfH had forced a tightly managed timetable on the primary care trusts for implementing SCR "despite the immaturity of the technical solutions". Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS body responsible for... [14 May 2008]
GP patient record system hits latest target
News NHS tech agency Connecting For Health (CfH) said the take-up of the GP2GP system since it was introduced last July has been fast, with two-thirds of surgeries with the necessary GP2GP-compliant technology now using it. [27 Feb 2008]
Confusion over Granger's NHS departure
News On announcing his decision to step down from his position running the National Programme for IT in the NHS and as CEO of Connecting for Health (CfH) in June last year, Granger initially indicated he would leave in October last year. [15 Jan 2008]
NHS slashes costs with VoIP upgrade
News Chard said the Connecting for Health (CfH) business case for the upgrade suggested NHS organisations could save around £6m per year on internal calls using the network. With 70 per cent of NHS call charges coming from landline to mobile calls, CfH... [23 Jul 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]
Hospital Trust Increases Efficiency by Standardising Communications Infrastructure
White Paper The U.K.government's new Connecting For Health (CFH) programme aims to rectify that problem by requiring healthcare organisations to procure standard systems from authorised vendors. Many are struggling to implement and maintain the infrastructure... [28 Nov 2006]
NHS IT "sleepwalking towards disaster"
News The two MPs, Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP for Southport, are both members of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that recently criticised progress on the... [11 Sep 2006]
Watchdog to reprobe NHS IT
News That figure includes the £6.2bn for the main fixed-price IT contracts; £382m for new projects; £239m on additional services; and £1.9bn on other expenditure by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) on centrally managed projects and services. [05 Sep 2006]
RFID blood-tracking trial planned
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is looking to work with one or more trusts in England to pilot a national IT specification for blood tracking. The specification will inform the work of NHS CfH and of commercial companies that produce hardware and... [22 Aug 2006]
"No believable plan" for key NHS IT software
News One of the major concerns raised by Accenture and CSC in the report is that iSoft is building a generic solution that will require time-consuming and costly customisation to meet the needs of the Connecting for Health (CfH) NHS IT programme. [21 Aug 2006]
Digital X-ray plan hits halfway in London and south
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said 50 per cent of trusts - 33 - now have the Picture Archiving and Communications System (Pacs) deployed. NHS CfH claims it will complete "the bulk" of Pacs deployments by March 2007, with deployments complete by... [09 Aug 2006]
NHS data centre repairs "almost complete"
News In a statement today, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said: "We can report the recovery of computer services in the North West and West Midlands of England is now largely complete. Earlier this week the NHS CfH said that it and supplier CSC "regret... [02 Aug 2006]
Update: Crash hits 80 NHS trusts
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for health service IT, said some priority services were restored last night, and "a number" of the 80 affected trusts and primary care trusts across the region have had use of their patient... [01 Aug 2006]
