Spine Archives

27 January 2005

The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time,

19 January 2005

Why do we need electronic health records, anyway? Gerry Yantis and Manuel Lowenhaupt of CapGemini argue that the challenges faced

19 January 2005

Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national

22 December 2004

Primary Care systems supplier EMIS has issued its customers with a briefing about its relationship with the NHS National Programme for

14 December 2004

The National Programme for IT have started to publish uptime statistics on their website for the data spine, N3 and

2 December 2004

Software that operates using a working version of the data spine has been installed by Accenture under the NPfIT in

29 November 2004

Richard Granger, Director General of the National Programme for IT, has said that the national programme remains on schedule to

25 November 2004

The General Practitioner Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association has written to GPs advising them that it has serious

15 November 2004

Implementation of Choose and Book (CaB), the national electronic appointment booking service, is experiencing serious teething problems with only a

4 October 2004

National engagement over electronic referrals will only come “when the time is right", namely when the system is fully operational,

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