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Primary care inspires review

EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly

A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals

The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT

The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited
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Davis: Google hits back

Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’

Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial
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Vaulting ambition

The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they
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Interim flu line for 100,000 cases a day

The Department of Health’s interim flu line service is expected to be operational by next week, as the government predicts
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Tories may offer private record stores

Patients may be given the option to transfer their health records to Google or Microsoft personal health record platforms under
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Scrap big government IT: think tank

A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead
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