Public Sector IT
April 2008
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Fujitsu makes revised offer on NPfIT contract
30 Apr 2008 -
World-class? - please no
30 Apr 2008 -
290 patient safety incidents reported under NPfIT scheme
25 Apr 2008
Several people in the NHS say that health officials and Fujitsu have returned to the negotiating table after talks had stalled over a “contract reset” over the supplier’s £896m deal for installing ...
A health magazine has this week called on its readers to submit "world-class" questions. HM Revenue and Customs wants to prove it has a world-class data security environment after the bad publicity ...
Nearly 300 incidents have put patients at risk since 2005 when health officials began systematic recording of safety matters under the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The incidents are ...
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Some of the good and bad at HC2008 - a summing up
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Whitehall advertises for NHS CIO
22 Apr 2008 -
HC2008 - the lighter side of Healthcare Computing event in Harrogate
22 Apr 2008 -
Small-scale NPfIT look-alike in Australia is in trouble
22 Apr 2008 -
Have NPfIT contract talks in the south stalled?
21 Apr 2008 -
Judge says ministerial statement about ID Card gateway reviews and FOI was "wrong"
21 Apr 2008 -
All eyes on the NPfIT go-live at Barts?
18 Apr 2008
Comment: My highly subjective overview of some of the good and bad at HC2008, the annual Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate.. The bad: Some of the speeches were, as in previous years, ...
The Department of Health has advertised for an NHS chief information officer. Headhunters have been recruited and interviews will take place in a couple of months. Matthew Swindells, acting NHS ...
Acting NHS CIO Matthew Swindells, who is writing a review of NHS informatics, revealed to the HC2008 conference in Harrogate that, as IT buyer for South East Thames Regional Health Authority in ...
Comment: Whitehall health officials should read the report of the Auditor-General in Victoria, Australia, on the state's "Healthsmart" project. The delays and problems are similar to those on the ...
An anonymous e-mail to this blog suggests that negotiations on the contract reset between Fujitsu and the NHS in the south of England have not yet worked out, though the two sides have been trying ...
A judge has criticised as “wrong” a government statement made to Parliament on its decision not to publish two gateway reviews – independent assessments – of the ID Cards scheme. Stanley Burnton, a ...
Some staff at the Barts and The London were without their new systems, delivered under the NHS’s National Programme for IT, for half an hour on Tuesday during the busy morning period when many ...
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Rapist poses as council care worker to access its data
17 Apr 2008 -
Choose and Book problems: up to 340 patients affected since Friday
16 Apr 2008 -
Swindells report on NHS IT: is it being held up?
16 Apr 2008 -
Former NHS CIO: the risks of enforced standardization
16 Apr 2008 -
Robert Mugabe, spin and the NPfIT
16 Apr 2008
One danger of database searches making it easy for unscrupulous insiders to obtain data on vulnerable people The Local Government Chronicle and The Sun have reported that a rapist posed as a care ...
Problems with the Choose and Book system – part of the NHS’s National Programme for IT – have led to more than 300 patients receiving wrong appointments since Friday 11 April 2008. In many cases ...
A week ago we reported that Matthew Swindells, who has been leading a review of NHS informatics, including the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), has resigned. Since then there have been ...
Iain Marsland former chief information officer for Essex Strategic Health Authority, has written an article for Microsoft on the Care Records Service, a key part of the NHS National Programme for ...
Comment Robert Mugabe blames Zimbabwe's problems on the white man. Much less significant, but no less ridiculous, are the comments of Whitehall officials who ascribe to the media all the ills of ...