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NPfIT support procurement enters final stretch

NHS Connecting for Health has announced that the three remaining bidders for the First Line Service Support (FLSS) contract are
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£1bn NHS electronic procurement network formed

UKprocure have announced the establishment of the NHS Trading Network (NHSTN), which brings together 53 NHS organisations nationwide in one
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National Scottish NHS IT procurement begins

 The National Health Service for Scotland has begun re-tendering exercise for end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services, in a
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Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers

An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on
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NPfIT procurement unfriendly for SMEs, says OFT

SMEs are being locked out of competition in many areas of public sector procurement, including the National Programme for IT,
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Web catalogue powers up procurement project

A collaborative NHS procurement project in the north-east of England has combined its bargaining power with the new ability to
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Thames Valley ICRS Collaborative PFI Procurement Suspended

The Thames Valley Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) collaborative procurement has become the latest high-profile NHS electronic records project to
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IT Procurement Strategy Promised By December

The government plans to publish the full version of its procurement strategy for the NHS IT programme by December 2002,
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Monaghan Promises IT Procurement Strategy by July

Last week saw the publication of the new NHS IT implementation strategy, ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support’ , as reported
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans

Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold
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