23 April 2012

Audit Commission wants new datasets

The Audit Commission has criticised existing NHS datasets for failing to reflect what is happening to patients.
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5 April 2012

CSC and DH talks will drag on to June

CSC has failed to agree a new deal with the Department of Health for the North, Midlands and East to
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3 April 2012

Change at the top for System C/McKesson

Markus Bolton, the co-founder of System C, and Dr Ian Denley, its chief executive, will leave the company in July,
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3 April 2012

Integrated care pilots show few benefits

An independent evaluation of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilots has shown they are delivering few of the benefits
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27 March 2012

IT identified as key risk in NHS reforms

Dealing with the aftermath of the National Programme for IT in the NHS has been identified as one of the
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21 March 2012

Lean years to follow lean years in NHS

The NHS has been warned that it faces another lean period when it gets to the end of the present
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21 March 2012

NHS to be ‘liberated’ by Easter

The Health and Social Care Bill has cleared its final Parliamentary hurdle, with doctors welcoming amendments on confidentiality, but opponents
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12 March 2012

NPfIT to be cut by £1.8 billion

The government is to secure £1.8 billion savings from the National Programme for IT in the NHS, with around £1
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9 March 2012

Government loses risk register fight

The government has been told it must publish one of the risk registers drawn up for the latest round of
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9 March 2012

CCIO on NHS CB “jolly good idea”

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said a chief clinical information officer on the new NHS Commissioning Board would be a
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