NHSmail

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25 April 2006

Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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8 November 2004

Mixed results as Contact splutters into life

E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new
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28 October 2004

New NHS email system switched on

The new NHS email system, Contact, has belatedly gone live after the abortive launch two weeks ago – but early
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12 October 2004

Contact lost as NHS e-mail relaunch misfires

Contact, the new NHS e-mail service supplied by Cable and Wireless, is down for maintenance after problems at its launch on
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17 August 2004

EDS given £9m compensation for NHSmail contract

EDS is to recieve £9m in compensation from the Department of Health for the cancellation of its 10-year contract to
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13 July 2004

C&W win NHS email and directory contract

Cable & Wireless is the new contractor appointed to manage central e-mail and directory services for the NHS, the Department
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6 April 2004

NPfIT re-tenders for NHSmail contract

The National Programme for IT has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) seeking a
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9 March 2004

National programme says NHSmail was ‘unacceptable’

The National Programme for IT has said that the decision to terminate the £90 million contract with EDS for a
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8 March 2004

Granger terminates EDS’s NHSmail contract

The National Programme for IT has terminated the £90 million NHSmail contract with Electronic Data Systems to provide email and
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9 December 2003

NHSmail, a doctor’s tale

Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, who was a computer programmer before switching to medicine, signed-up with NHSmail recently. Here’s his description
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