CfH
RSS CfHNHS: '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 -... [05 Feb 2007]
End of the line for NHS IT agency?
News The Department of Health (DoH) is in talks over what should become of the Connecting for Health (CfH) name after the agency's head Martin Bellamy departs at the end of this month. Staff will be given a number of options... [24 Jun 2009]
Troubled iSoft posts £14.6m loss
News The future of the troubled NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) software provider iSoft remains in doubt after the struggling UK software vendor announced it had recorded a loss for the last six months.iSoft made a loss of... [12 Dec 2006]
NHS IT chief warns against local budget cuts
News The financial meltdown in some healthcare authorities across the country will not hit funding for the rollout of the £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, according to NHS IT director general Richard... [25 May 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment Criticism stems from delays to various parts of CfH, which have led to one of the lead suppliers, Accenture, taking a $450m hit on its profits. That's NHS IT chief Richard Granger's response to the mounting criticism of... [26 May 2006]
NHS IT prescription glitch fixed
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said it and supplier Accenture were alerted to "an issue" last Thursday at a GP practice that was using an NHS CfH GP IT system. NHS CfH said in a... [12 Jun 2006]
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:... [29 May 2008]
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... [01 Aug 2006]
NHS: IT delays won't slow us down
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), which is in charge of the health service's National Programme for IT, insisted the project is "within budget, ahead of schedule in some areas and broadly on track in others". [31 Jan 2006]
NHS helpdesk opens for business
News The local service desks in London and the South switched over to the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) Service Desk on Monday, completing a nationwide rollout that started on 15 December last year. The new service replaces... [16 Jan 2007]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News It will be the fourth year in a row that NHS IT body Connecting for Health (CfH) has failed to spend all of its allocated capital funds, taking the total capital underspend for the agency since 2005 to almost £1.8bn. [02 Apr 2009]
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. CfH and its suppliers have now rolled out 22 Pacs in the... [09 Aug 2006]
GPs get £1 a patient incentive to use NHS IT
News The Choose and Book system is part of the £6.2bn Connecting for Health (CfH) project to overhaul and modernise NHS IT systems - and it has had its critics. But NHS CfH claims momentum is continuing to... [13 Jun 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. As the specification was developed in a large teaching hospital,... [22 Aug 2006]
Director shake-up: Saviour of NHS IT project?
News After years of delays and rising costs on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the body which oversees the programme, Connecting for Health (CfH), will see its remit reduced to supporting a new organisation overseeing... [09 Mar 2009]
