All NHS IT programme articles – Page 7
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Creating a fearless ITC strategy
Trevor Ludlam's organisation used the national programme for IT as a springboard for implementing a wide range of IT innovations. From integrated patient records to digital pens in A&E, here he explains what they did and how they did it
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Trevor Ludlam on
The National Programme for IT was established to deliver front-line systems and services that would deliver major benefits for NHS organisations, staff and patients. Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service has been steadily turning the vision of integrated information, communication and technology into a reality.Having just retired as director of Nottinghamshire Health ...
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Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends
Those of us interested in the genesis of high-profile national policy will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4's Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 Sir John Pattison, then responsible Director for NHS IT, was given all of 10 minutes to make a pitch to the then prime minister ...
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HSJ Knowledge
National IT programme timeline
March 2002: A new direction for NHS IT announced, based on national standards and procurement from a limited list of suppliersJune 2002: The Department of Health publishes the IT strategy Delivering 21st-Century IT Support for the NHS: a national strategic programmeOctober 2002: Richard Granger appointed director general of NHS ITDecember ...
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National IT programme glossary
NHS CfH: NHS Connecting for Health is the government agency that runs the national IT programmeNPfIT: the national programme for IT is responsible for digitising the NHSEnterprise-wide agreement: a deal for the whole NHS with a commercial software provider such as Oracle or MicrosoftGPSoC: GP systems of choice, a programme ...
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Michael White on data security
When I heard that young Tory thruster George Osborne warn that the fiasco over the two missing child benefit discs from HM Revenue and Customs will prove the 'final blow' to the British ID card scheme, I wondered what it might also mean for the NHS.
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NHS set for £13m net surplus despite rising levels of debt
The NHS is predicted to make a £13m surplus this financial year, according to the latest Department of Health forecasts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Under pressure
The national IT programme is in all sorts of trouble, with problems ranging from slow uptake to embattled suppliers. Andy Cowper looks for the silver lining and signs of progress
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Michael White on politics
'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'
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News
NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.
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Connecting for health: the good, the bad and the wobbly
The national IT programme is in all sorts of trouble, with problems ranging from slow uptake to embattled suppliers. Andy Cowper looks for a silver lining
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Richard Barker on why the IT programme is never going to come right
'NPfIT will never get back on track; it was never on track in the first place. It breaks every rule of project management - from scoping to delivery - and is patently failing to take into account the actual requirements of clinicians across the NHS.'
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News
NHS boards overlook IT benefits, says Granger
NPFIT Technology must reach 3-4 per cent of NHS spend, says guru
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News
Simple minds
A few things done properly - and soon - is the short-term strategy for the NHS IT programme.Can it deliver this time? Jon Hoeksma reports
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Simple minds
A few things done properly - and soon - is the short-term strategy for the NHS IT programme.Can it deliver this time? Jon Hoeksma reports
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Simple minds
A few things done properly - and soon - is the short-term strategy for the NHS IT programme.Can it deliver this time? Jon Hoeksma reports