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16 June 2006

NAO gives positive account of NHS CfH

According to the eagerly-awaited National Audit Office report published today the DH and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible
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16 June 2006

Taskforce announced to speed up NCRS

The Department of Health is setting up a taskforce to speed up implementation of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS)
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31 May 2006

Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients

Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking
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30 May 2006

Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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25 May 2006

Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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24 May 2006

MPs call for review of NHS IT programme costs

Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat MP for Westmoreland & Lonsdale, has stepped up his campaign for an independent review of the
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5 May 2006

NAO says out-of-hours management information poor

Management information on out-of-hours services is poor, caused partly by problems with IT systems and compounded by inadequate telephone systems
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26 April 2006

Systems must be good enough to stop short cuts

New systems for the NHS must be so good that staff aren’t tempted to find ‘work arounds’ that jeopardise security,
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21 April 2006

CfH says it has ‘no objection’ to a review

Connecting for Health has agreed with its academic critics that "a constructive and pragmatic" independent review of the National Programme
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11 April 2006

Academics call for NPfIT technical assessment

A group of 23 computer science academics from around the UK have written an open letter calling for an “independent
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