NPfIT

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6 May 2008

Urgent review of SCR consent model recommended

The independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record has recommended an urgent review of its implied consent model and questioned
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29 April 2008

Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre to deploy electronic health
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21 April 2008

Swindells calls for stronger use of information

Departing CIO at the Department of Health, Matthew Swindells, has stressed the importance of the NHS using information to make
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17 April 2008

Wanted: someone to lead on NHS IT

It might be one of the biggest civil IT projects on the planet, but the Department of Health appears to
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2 April 2008

Richard Jeavons to leave Connecting for Health

Richard Jeavons, Connecting for Health’s head of service implementation is to leave the agency before it implements its key detailed
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27 March 2008

CfH says much done, much yet to come

Gordon Hextall, CfH chief, says the NHS IT programme too often gets a negative press when in reality it has
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27 March 2008

NPfIT progress so far

Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the
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18 March 2008

GP systems create £1.6m in recurrent savings

More than 600 GP systems had been installed under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by the end of March
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14 March 2008

NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years

The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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