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NHS brushes up on Itil
Case Study NHS IT delivery organisation Sussex Health Informatics Services (HIS) has implemented an extensive Itil (IT infrastructure library) training programme for staff and kept costs down by partnering with the training company... [11 Jun 2008]
NHS gets £500m technology booster
News The Department of Health has published its strategy document, Building the Information Core - Implementing the NHS Plan, in which it pledges to have an electronic health record for every NHS patient as... [15 Jan 2001]
NHS turns to India for electronic patient records
News Infosys will help the NHS with programme management, data migration, system integration, system design and will build the ERDIP (electronic record data implementation programme) pilot for patients with coronary heart... [06 Nov 2001]
NHS to get £83m IT cash boost
News Health Secretary Alan Milburn today pledged an extra £83m to NHS IT as part of a wider cash injection into the health service. Speaking directly after Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to an invited audience of... [06 Dec 2001]
NHS trusts to save £5.5m from outsourcing contract
Case Study NHS trusts in the North West of England have streamlined their document and print management services. As part of the contract, Xerox is providing core office functions to eight NHS trusts, such as... [14 Sep 2007]
NHS hits 18,000 broadband connections target
News The N3 broadband backbone which is part of the £12.4bn NHS IT modernisation programme has passed a key milestone after hitting the target for connecting 18,000 sites two months early. The N3 network links up surgeries,... [08 Feb 2007]
NHS email upgrade rocked by delays
News The NHS has warned hundreds of thousands of staff that it has been forced to push back an email upgrade to next year. Due to start at the end of this month, the move from Mirapoint to Microsoft Exchange 2007 will mean... [18 Sep 2008]
NHS names top tech tag team
News The Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of the NHS National Programme for IT. The NHS announced in April that it would split the old NHS IT... [07 Aug 2008]
NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance
Case Study The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has started monitoring its software systems to predict problems and avoid outages. The NHS Foundation Trust runs two hospitals in the Birmingham... [20 Mar 2007]
NHS streamlines Microsoft licensing deal
News The NHS is to standardise its software licensing deal with Microsoft under the umbrella of an enterprise agreement in an attempt to cut down on red tape. In the past, Microsoft has ordered extensions to current... [11 Oct 2001]
NHS staff get IT booster
News The NHS is to set up an IT helpdesk for staff struggling to come to terms with its computers. The NHS Information Authority - the body responsible for overseeing the computerisation of the health service... [10 Jan 2002]
NHS IT project rolled out nationwide
News The national rollout of the NHS patient electronic health record transfer system GP2GP has begun. GP2GP is one of the projects within the wider NHS IT programme and allows patient health records to be... [24 Jul 2007]
NHS IT costs could bust £1bn estimate
News NHS IT expenditure this year looks likely to be considerably higher than the official figure of £1.1bn. Research from government IT experts Kable, based on interviews with NHS IT managers, reveals that... [10 Jun 2002]
NHS slashes costs with VoIP upgrade
News The NHS could slash costs following an upgrade to its N3 broadband network, part of the National Programme for IT. N3 was previously used to speed up the transmitting of clinical data within the NHS but... [23 Jul 2007]
NHS IT spend to double - but where will the money go?
News Government plans to use new technology to drive improvements in the NHS have come under fire from doctors' representatives. Grant Kelly, chairman of the British Medical Association's IT committee, said Derek Wanless's... [22 Apr 2002]
