Connecting for Health
Health care records service delayed
News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on... [16 May 2008]
NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed
News NHS IT chief Richard Granger has earned more than £1m in the four years since his appointment as director general of the £7bn Connecting for Health project in 2002. The salary details... [30 May 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... [29 May 2008]
Doctors "demoralised" by £6.2bn NHS IT scheme
News Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) claim the situation is so serious that the whole Connecting for Health programme (formerly known as the National... [05 Aug 2005]
In brief: NHS IT chief to leave, Facebook "fogies", Vodafone wireless price cuts
News Richard Granger is to leave his full-time post as chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health "during the latter part of this year", according to the agency. NHS... [18 Jun 2007]
NHS updates key targets in £6bn IT modernisation
News Richard Granger, chief executive of Connecting for Health (formerly known as the National Programme for IT in the NHS), said the 10-year project to transform the... [07 Sep 2005]
NHS names top tech tag team
News She'll work with various NHS leaders and bodies including NHS Connecting for Health, the body which runs the National Programme for IT. Martin Bellamy will lead NHS... [07 Aug 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News While the NHS's NPfIT has already outlasted several heads of IT, its chequered track record is not surprising given the ambitious scale of the project: replacing an ageing patchwork of 5,000 different computer systems with a nationwide... [10 Nov 2008]
NHS IT spending will reach £12.4bn
News This includes £6.2bn for the main fixed-price IT contracts, £382m for new projects, £239m on additional services and £1.9bn on other expenditure by NHS Connecting for... [16 Jun 2006]
NHS hits 18,000 broadband connections target
News Richard Granger, director general of the NHS Connecting for Health programme, said almost 97 per cent of GPs and more than a million NHS staff are now connected to N3. The N3 broadband... [08 Feb 2007]
Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row
News The so-called Care Records Service (CRS) is a central part of the £6.2bn Connecting for Health NHS IT programme but its rollout is running two years late because of disagreements over... [20 Jul 2006]
Scottish NHS IT deal up for grabs
News But the Scottish NHS IT programme is separate from the £6.2bn Connecting for Health NHS IT modernisation project headed up by Richard Granger in England. The Northern Irish, Scottish and... [13 May 2005]
The nine projects at the heart of NHS IT
News NHS Connecting for Health, which oversees the National Programme for IT in the NHS, said a drop in support is to be expected at this point in the project. To replaced an... [19 Jan 2006]
Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News Among the biggest spenders were the NHS, which spent £1.4bn, not including the £1.1bn spent by Connecting for Health, the NHS IT upgrade that's underway. Connecting... [10 Jan 2007]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News The decision to double up the IT roles was taken as part of an ongoing review of effective information use in the NHS amid a £12.4bn overhaul of IT in the NHS known as Connecting for... [28 Apr 2008]
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