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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]

U.K. NHS Trust Saves £46,000 in One Year With Timely Software Updates

whitepaper To improve efficiency and reduce costs, managers at Blackpool, Fylde, and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust needed new tools to automate software updates. The trust, which is located in north-west England, assessed Novell ZenWorks before choosing to deploy...

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. The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the...

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 Get the latest public sector news straight to your...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News Crest's advisory panel includes representatives from insurance group Aviva, Lloyds TSB and the NHS. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut this week at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London.

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 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. Nearly 100 leaks of sensitive personal information have been reported to the data protection watchdog in the last six months.

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

NHS Choose and Book has health scare

News The launch of the latest version of the NHS Choose and Book online referral and booking system has been postponed due to technical problems. NHS Connecting for Health took the decision to postpone the latest release until the problem is resolved...

Tags: delay, npfit, choose and book, nhs

[17 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 Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks.

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

NHS CIO jumps ship

News The NHS CIO is to step down at the end of April, just months after taking the post. 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...

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

U.K. Healthcare Solutions Provider Accelerates GP Systems and Enhances Patient Care

whitepaper Healthcare technology supplier EMIS is always seeking ways to enhance its solutions, driven by strong partnerships with national programmes such as NHS Connecting for Health in the United Kingdom. The company wanted to boost the performance of its...

Tags: programming languages

[02 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]

Driver agency plugs data leaks

News Recent reports of 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 benefit...

Tags: government, dsa, data loss

[28 Mar 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. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

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