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30 December 2009

EHI’s top stories: 2009

Nobody will ever be able to say that the NHS went un-warned about the tough financial times ahead. One of
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28 December 2009

Lansley: LSP contracts may be abandoned

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider
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28 December 2009

Lansley may abandon LSP contracts

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider
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22 December 2009

DH shifts IT from ‘replace’ to ‘connect’

NHS informatics in England will move from a “replace all” to “connect all” philosophy, the Department of Health has announced.
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17 December 2009

NHS ‘faces pivotal year’ – Nicholson

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said that the coming year will be pivotal for the NHS as it faces
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10 December 2009

Call made for push on telehealth

NHS Connecting for Health’s assistive technologies programme manager has called for all healthcare organisations to provide their patients with access to
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8 December 2009

NPfIT GP systems ‘target for cuts’

The development of new GP systems by local service providers is likely to be a target of cuts to the
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7 December 2009

Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m

Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m
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7 December 2009

Brown promises to unlock NHS data

Gordon Brown has promised to “radically open up data and public information.” Launching the ‘Putting the frontline first: smarter government’
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24 November 2009

IT spend under pressure, survey confirms

Local and central IM&T spend as a percentage of NHS revenue will decrease next year for the first time in
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