Services

Over-budget GPES has no future – NAO

Significant delays to the General Practice Extraction Service have seen costs rise from £14 million to £40 million - and
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Stevens reiterates importance of tech

The use of new technology will play an important part in achieving the £22 billion in efficiency savings that NHS
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Care.data, NHS.uk and N4 get red lights

The successful delivery of care.data, NHS.uk and N4 “appears to be unachievable”, with all three major projects getting red lights,
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New E-Referral Service still has issues

Users of the new NHS e-Referral Service are still experiencing significant slowdown and other issues nearly two weeks after the
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Time for a change?

There’s just a year until National Programme for IT contracts end in the North, Midlands and East. Thomas Meek wonders
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Two down, three to go

Trusts in London and the South are set to be off their National Programme for IT contracts by October. Now
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Digital Health interview: Philippe Houssiau

CSC’s head of healthcare in the UK tells Jon Hoeksma the company has “stayed the course” on Lorenzo, but its
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Another view: mind the gap

GP Neil Paul wonders why an “implementation gap” so often opens up between a simple idea and actually doing it;
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Another view: just do IT

GP Neil Paul says it’s time to stop talking about big data and tech funds and do something useful –
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The holly and the IT

It’s one thing for the fairy lights to go out; it’s quite another for the IT to go down. Preparation
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