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U.K. Mental Health Trust Improves Knowledge Transfer With Technical Support Contract

whitepaper Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust wanted to transfer knowledge to its IT people to improve operational excellence and prepare to bid for NHS Foundation Trust status. The Trust replaced its disparate IT support contracts with Microsoft Services...

Tags: customer support services

[12 May 2008]

NHS Trust Cuts Software Deployment Costs With Update-Management Solution

whitepaper Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Eurodata, it chose to implement Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 under the NHS Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft. St Mary's wanted to centralise its software installation procedure to...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

IT Services Supplier Boosts Service to GPs With Streamlined Operations Management

whitepaper It needed a management solution that: better monitored service performance, lowered the total cost of ownership, helped INPS scale services easily to accommodate 6,000 new GPs and aligned INPS better with NHS Connecting for Health strategy to...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

NHS cleans up keyboard act

News The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008 diams...

Tags: hospitals, health, keyboards, connecting for health

[07 May 2008]

NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun

whitepaper 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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 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 against each other, cynics would...

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The wireless network was installed in May 2007 by...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

News Of the public sector lapses, almost a third occurred in central government and a fifth in the NHS. Since the security breach at HMRC in November last year, the ICO said it has been notified of almost 100 data breaches by public, private and third...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

NHS CIO jumps ship

News Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, at the beginning of the year. The NHS CIO is to step down at the end of April, just...

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed

News Recent reports of government data losses include the loss of three laptops by the Ministry of Defence containing personal details of 600,000 recruits, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, and HMRC's loss of 25 million child...

Tags: data theft, data loss, ico

[01 Apr 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News The report said the IT, telecoms and transport sector is responsible for employing the largest number of skilled migrant workers in the UK after education, health and government services - a grouping which includes the thousands of migrant...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech

News Michael Small, director of security management strategy at security vendor CA, said: "It will be interesting to see whether the [Forum's] remit extends to address the recent spate of data-breach cases, like the HMRC and NHS data losses, and if it...

Tags: gordon brown, cyber crime, security, funding

[20 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn NHS 'savings' The world has moved on in terms of how innovative projects that use technology are delivered, so must the NHS and the government. With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

News Peter Russell, head of IT, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Peter Russell, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Local units do not have sufficient resources or skills to deal with some of the threats we are now facing.

Tags: cio jury, e-crime, cio, crime

[18 Mar 2008]

<strong>NHS</strong> <strong>IT</strong> savings predicted to hit £1.14bn

NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn

News The £12.4bn national NHS IT project will save the health service £1.14bn by 2014, a government report claims. The first annual Benefits Statement published by the government estimates the National Programme for IT in the NHS has already saved £208m...

Tags: nhs, government, connecting for health, programme

[13 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News The government has suffered many data security breaches over the past five months, including the MoD having three laptops stolen containing approximately 600,000 servicemen's and recruits' details, the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patient...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall

News A spokesman for Intellect said: "In the technology sector SME access to public contracts has been a real issue, particularly in the National Programme for IT [in the NHS], and Intellect has been working to improve the situation for smaller companies.

Tags: budget, public sector, sme, innovation

[12 Mar 2008]

VirtualizeIT Designs and Implements a High Availability/Disaster Recovery Virtual Infrastructure for Accident and Emergency Command & Control

whitepaper Two Shire Ambulance NHS Trust was formed in 1993, following the merger of the Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire ambulance services. IT Manager, was responsible for sourcing a solution to his business challenge of providing an infrastructure that...

Tags: disaster recovery

[04 Mar 2008]

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