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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 - the NHS department administering the IT... [05 Feb 2007]
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 £14.6m between May and... [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 Granger. [25 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 NHS CfH said in a statement: "The GP practice highlighted that out-of-date repeat... [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: "Regrettably and despite best efforts by all... [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 had use of their patient... [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 the in-house National... [16 Jan 2007]
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 southern cluster and 11 Pacs in the London cluster. [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 build behind Choose and Book with an average of... [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, CfH wants to pilot it in a smaller, non... [22 Aug 2006]
Accenture pulls out of £12.4bn NHS IT project
News Accenture was awarded the two contracts to be the local service provider (LSP) for the Connecting for Health (CfH) programme in the East and North East regions back in 2003 but will now hand over the work to CSC, which is already an LSP for the... [28 Sep 2006]
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 Health (CfH) on centrally managed projects and services. [16 Jun 2006]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) and Connecting for Health (CfH) in June and the timetable for his departure has now been confirmed. [05 Dec 2007]
GP patient record system hits latest target
News NHS tech agency Connecting For Health (CfH) said the take-up of the GP2GP system since it was introduced last July has been fast, with two-thirds of surgeries with the necessary GP2GP-compliant technology now using it. [27 Feb 2008]
