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27 March 2007

NPfIT is a ‘high quality enabler’ says NHS chief

NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has described the National Programme for Information Technology as “not fundamentally an IT programme, but
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19 March 2007

Hunt spells out local ownership moves

 Health minister, Lord Hunt, who was responsible for setting up the National Programme for IT, has defended its strongly centralised
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19 March 2007

NHS 24 faces legal action over patient deaths

NHS 24, the Scottish health helpline service, is being sued for £750,000 damages by the partner of a man who
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14 March 2007

EMIS becomes first GP supplier to commit to CUI

Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate
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13 March 2007

NPfIT’s Evolution maternity dropped by Royal Shrewsbury

The NHS trust that was meant to be the pilot site for the National Programme for IT version of iSoft’s
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1 March 2007

Funding axed for ambulance IT system

Urgent talks are underway to save a computerised capacity and activity monitoring system (CAMS) used to direct ambulances to hospitals
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1 March 2007

Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’

Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final
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28 February 2007

Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner

Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with
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28 February 2007

Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software

Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease
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26 February 2007

Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live

The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January
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