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Half of PCT IT staff left in the dark over mergers

A telephone poll of newly merged primary care trusts by EHI Primary Care has revealed that almost half of the 40
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MPs say Accenture’s departure evidence of NPfIT failure

Opposition MPs were quick to voice doubts about Accenture’s departure from most of its work under the National Programme for
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Accenture pulls out of national programme

Accenture has departed from the NHS National Programme for IT, walking away from two contracts worth a total of more than £2bn.  The
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PC Coaching to provide NPfIT mobile training

Mobile training provider PC Coaching has signed a framework agreement with Connecting for Health to be the sole provider of
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NPfIT systems failing repeatedly

More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to
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iSoft’s £82m upfront cash for existing IT revealed

Upfront payments totalling nearly £82m were made to health IT specialists, iSoft, in a complex deal which gave the company money
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MPs prescribe ‘rescue’ plan for NHS IT project

The government has been urged to rethink its £12.4bn NHS IT project, and replace its current highly centralised national strategy
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Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work

Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down
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CSC takes charge of seven ‘out of cluster’ trusts

Computer Sciences Corporation, the local service provider for the North-west and West Midlands is to take over responsibility for the
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PHCSG update

Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month's BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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