nhs it primary care
Fujitsu to pay back NHS £67m
News The figure emerged during a Public Accounts Committee hearing into NPfIT, where there was disagreement between the NHS and Fujitsu over the reason for the collapse of its contract to deliver the care records systems in the south of England. [17 Jun 2008]
NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
News The NHS has pledged to halt the further roll out of its electronic patient record system while it takes stock of criticisms in a report. Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS body responsible for delivering the £12.7bn overhaul of NHS IT including... [14 May 2008]
NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun
White Paper NHS Tayside provides primary care and secondary healthcare services to a population of approximately 400,000 in the Tayside region of Scotland. Sun and business partner Access Computing helped NHS Tayside consolidate and upgrade its data storage... [16 Apr 2008]
GP patient record system hits latest target
News More than a third of doctor's surgeries in England have now adopted an electronic health records system as part of the £12.4bn NHS national IT programme. NHS tech agency Connecting For Health (CfH) said the take-up of the GP2GP system since it was... [27 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient... [04 Feb 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has improved network security using integration software to match staff records with systems access.silicon.com Public Sector The NHS is constantly in a state of change as staff move jobs or leave the profession. [25 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the HMRC losing 25... [23 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient... [22 Jan 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details, information on family, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers were included on the laptop. Defence minister Des Browne will make a statement today about the latest incident... [21 Jan 2008]
Thousands more UK patients' details lost
News The security of information held by the NHS suffered a further blow after the loss of another 4,000 medical and personal details has come to light. The details, which also included their NHS number and details of their GPs, was on a USB drive that... [18 Jan 2008]
SMS reminders help NHS tackle forgetful patients
Case Study The Patient Care Messaging (PCM) software, which is made by healthcare application developer iPLATO, is being used by 24 NHS Primary Care Trusts to enable GP surgeries to send automatic and targeted appointment and health reminders to patients by... [07 Jan 2008]
London Healthcare Trust Gives GPs Secure Remote Access to Patient Data
White Paper Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust (PCT) is the NHS body responsible for General Practitioner (GP) services for 190,000 people in central London. GP systems now have to meet stringent standards to ensure that they will integrate with those... [18 Dec 2007]
NHS IT project rolled out nationwide
News GP2GP is one of the projects within the wider NHS IT programme and allows patient health records to be transferred between GP practices electronically, instead of using the traditional paper-based system. [24 Jul 2007]
New hospitals award £68m voice and data contract
News University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust and Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust have outsourced voice and data services for two new hospitals in the area. It is a major element in the drive to regenerate the economy of North Staffordshire. [26 Jun 2007]
North London NHS workers get remote access
News The London Boroughs of Camden and Islington have rolled out a new network to connect 14 healthcare sites and give staff remote access to NHS applications. The launch of a new Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IPVPN) gives 2,000 health... [21 Jun 2007]
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