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19 July 2010

Government axes £15m for children’s IT

The government has axed £15m of funding promised by the previous Labour government to help local authorities implement integrated children’s
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14 July 2010

DH axes £500m Microsoft licensing deal

The Department of Health will not renew a half billion pound software licensing deal with Microsoft, which has run for
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12 July 2010

PCTs to go in massive NHS reorganisation

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that primary care trusts are to be abolished as part of a massive reorganisation
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22 June 2010

Public spending hit in grim Budget

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that lower public spending will form the bulk of the government’s action to reduce Britain’s
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21 June 2010

NHS ordered to halve management costs

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at
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10 June 2010

GP leader names his NHS savings

Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current ‘consent to view’ model of the Summary Care
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3 June 2010

Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts
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2 June 2010

GPES caught up in Whitehall review

The proposed GP data extraction service is awaiting a decision on its future funding as the coalition government carries out a
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17 May 2010

Osborne orders review of govt spending

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced a review of all government spending commitments since New Year’s
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1 April 2010

Experts fear Punch and Judy election

The general election Policy and healthcare IT experts have urged an incoming government to resist the temptation to shake up
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