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27 November 2007

Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year

Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn
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6 November 2007

IT to be included in hospital ‘deep cleans’

IT and telephone equipment have been included in the Department of Health’s list of items be subjected to a rigorous
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28 June 2007

Johnson named as new health secretary

Alan Johnson has today been appointed as England’s new health secretary by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The former education secretary
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26 June 2007

Letter to the PM

In an open letter Robin Guenier, former CEO of the Government's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency, urges the new Prime
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4 June 2007

OGC accused of shredding Gateway review reports

The Office of Government Commerce has reportedly ordered civil servants to destroy copies of Gateway review reports into government computer
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23 May 2007

Online service launched for antenatal screening

A new web-based antenatal screening service has been launched to supplement screening available on the NHS. Genio, which offers antenatal
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15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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30 March 2007

Rio rolls out in West London trust

West London Mental Health NHS Trust rolled out the Rio clinical information system after an implementation involving 91,000 records and
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21 March 2007

NPfIT ‘needs re-evaluating to be a success’

Connecting for Health must look at three key things – scalability, complexity and availability if the National Programme for Information
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11 May 2005

National US personal health record launched

Medem, a not-for-profit company created by leading US medical societies including the American Medical Association, announced this week the national
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