records national programme
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Getting the national legal and IT compatibility requirements between existing NHS records and private sector databases is not going to be a straightforward thing to do. The introduction of Patient... [10 Aug 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment Instead, patients would be given the option of storing their medical records with private companies, which would then make the records available to patients and health staff via online services such as... [07 Jul 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News Six "early adopter" primary care trusts, Bradford and Airedale, Bolton, Bury, Dorset, South Birmingham and South West Essex have been chosen to create summary care records for patients and upload them to The Spine. [23 Jun 2009]
How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
News Fast forward to 2009, and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is facing a number of difficulties: key projects to digitise patient records are running four years late, two major... [19 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Meanwhile, issues continue to dog other parts of the scheme: the biggest problems have arisen with the Care Records Service, a project to create a nationally available electronic medical record, which is four years... [10 Jun 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile As well as delivering infrastructure and applications that support Network Rail's mission-critical engineering and rail operations, Doran leads the group looking after its National Records. Since... [02 Jun 2009]
Christine Connelly
CIO Profile Connelly recently pledged to end delays to the introduction of electronic medical records across England, saying that if there is not significant progress in delivery by November 2009, the DoH will move to a new plan for... [01 Jun 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News The NHS project to digitise medical records in England has six months to shape up - or else. The Care Records Service project is four years behind schedule and NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told... [28 Apr 2009]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News The agency blamed its ongoing spending shortfall on falling behind its timetable for implementing electronic medical records across England under the Care Records Service. Patient administration systems... [02 Apr 2009]
Director shake-up: Saviour of NHS IT project?
News Under CfH's stewardship the cost of the NPfIT has ballooned from £6.2bn to £12.7bn and the rollout of the key Care Records Service - a project to provide electronic patient records nationwide - has been... [09 Mar 2009]
NHS critical IT faults leap 80 per cent
News The figures were revealed in the wake of a critical report into the NPfIT by the parliamentary watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, which gave the Department of Health six months to speed up the rollout of a delayed NPfIT project,... [02 Feb 2009]
How IT is helping the NHS save the planet
News Find out more about the 10 key NHS IT projects NHS Care Records Service Choose and Book The Electronic Prescription Service N3 national broadband network Picture... [29 Jan 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News The national rollout of care records is a naïve and oversimplistic distraction from getting a detailed local care record services going. The Department of Health (DoH) must turn around the multibillion... [27 Jan 2009]
GP2GP puts 5,000 doctors' records in rude health
News Patient records are now being electronically transferred between thousands of GP practices in England, thanks to the NHS's GP2GP system. The system, which allows the secure transfer of records between... [26 Jan 2009]
Is this make or break for £12.7bn NHS IT project?
News From the NHS Care Records Service, to the Picture Archiving and Communications System (Pacs) One of the two remaining main suppliers for the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), BT... [22 Jan 2009]
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