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21 October 2004

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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7 September 2004

NHS close to signing new Microsoft deal

The NHS is on the brink of signing a new three-year corporate licensing agreement with Microsoft to provide desktop applications
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31 August 2004

NAO to investigate National Programme for IT

In an unusual move the £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is to be investigated by the National Audit
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26 August 2004

Sun awarded ‘tactical’ NHS desktop contract

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has concluded an evaluation project with Sun Microsystems over the potential use of Sun’s
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13 August 2004

Six new companies brought under NPfIT banner

The National Programme for IT have announced six new “enterprise-wide" agreements between suppliers of software and hardware infrastructure and services,
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12 July 2004

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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22 June 2004

Radical Steps highlights serious concerns about NPfIT

The National Programme for IT is still failing to communicate what it will deliver, when it will deliver, and what
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1 April 2004

Hextall says details on PACS and legacy imminent

The chief operating officer for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has promised that details of the national programme’s approach
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25 March 2004

Big Brother alive and well at Heathcare Computing

E-Health Insider comment from Jon Hoeksma “I just had a call from the National Programme [for IT] on what I
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25 March 2004

Granger promises to make PACS ‘deployable’

A promise to deliver at least 50% cuts in the pricing of Picture Archiving and Storage Systems (PACS) and make
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