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1 April 2010

DH commissions ‘Darling Dashboard’

The Department of Health has appointed a consortium to develop a ‘Darling Dashboard’ that will proactively help the NHS to
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24 March 2010

Lower borrowing, more savings in Budget

Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed that government borrowing will be lower than predicted in last year’s Pre-Budget Report, while committing
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2 March 2010

O’Brien claims govt may lock-in NPfIT

Conservative health spokesman Stephen O’Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government
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23 February 2010

GPs back cuts to NHS Direct and NPfIT

NHS Direct and the National Programme for IT in the NHS are both appropriate targets for cuts in the current economic
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18 February 2010

Councils urged to take up telecare

Local authorities are ill-prepared to cope with the demands of an ageing population and must look to telecare as one
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18 February 2010

NHS to be using NHSmail by 2013

The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants “most” NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by
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16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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10 February 2010

Lorenzo ‘will stop at Release 2’

CSC may only deliver the first two releases of Lorenzo, the electronic patient record system being deployed across the North,
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18 January 2010

£40m NPfIT legal bills revealed

Almost £40m has been paid to two law firms for legal and commercial support for the National Programme for IT
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31 December 2009

Here is the news: for 2010

NHS IT will face tough times over the coming year and there will be changes to the National Programme for
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