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Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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No cuts, but low growth in budget

Chancellor Alastair Darling has told the Commons that the government does not plan to “cut” its way out of recession
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CfH underspent by £828m over three years

Delays in implementations and delivery of systems under the National Programme for IT over the last three years means that
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NHS budget to reach £110 billion by 2011

The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase
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NHS ICT spend set to hit £2.9bn

The total spend on Information and Communications Technology in the NHS is set to hit £2.9bn in 2007/8 according to
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Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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NPfIT refutes claims on unforeseen costs

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) last night issued a lengthy statement refuting claims that it will generate billions of
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Treasury plans £6.8bn NHS savings through IT

Today’s Gershon report, “Releasing resources to the front line: Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency", has said that IT reform
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