20 June 2012

NHS can’t stand further £20bn ‘savings’

Two dire warnings about the financial state of the NHS have been issued ahead of the annual NHS Confederation conference
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18 June 2012

Sectra buys Burnbank Systems

Sectra has bought the company that developed the Image Exchange Portal that is used by almost all NHS trusts to
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15 June 2012

Nuffield Trust works on PARR30

Researchers at the Nuffield Trust are working on a new predictive risk tool for the NHS, focusing on patients at
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6 June 2012

CSC standstill agreement stands still

CSC has again failed to reach an agreement with the Department of Health for a new local service provider deal
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28 May 2012

DH backs e-procurement drive

The NHS has been urged to use GS1 coding on more items to support a shift towards e-procurement in the
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22 May 2012

Final death knell for HealthSpace

The NHS’ own health organiser, HealthSpace, has been confirmed as an unlikely casualty of the NHS information strategy, published earlier
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22 May 2012

ICO fines second trust but faces appeal

The second NHS organisation to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaching the Data Protection Act has said
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15 May 2012

Checkpoint 2 takes out more CSSs

Three NHS commissioning support services have been scrapped after failing the latest 'checkpoint' review by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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4 May 2012

Somerset plans 4,000 telehealth users

NHS Somerset is planning to monitor the symptoms of 4,000 people living with long-term conditions over the next three years,
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25 April 2012

Grant links IT to CCG success

The chair of the NHS Commissioning Board has said that the best clinical commissioning groups will be those with the
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