Public Sector IT
June 2008
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BBC and Evening Standard on NPfIT problems at BARTS
27 Jun 2008 -
Barts delays urgent cancer visits after NPfIT go-live
27 Jun 2008 -
Some highlights of Poynter report on HMRC missing CDs
26 Jun 2008
BBC online and the Evening Standard have followed up the postings this morning on Computer Weekly's website and on this blog.
- New system presents the "most significant" new risk to Barts since the start of the 2008/9 financial year The new Care Records Service at Barts and The London NHS Trust has led to patients with ...
Comment - and does Poynter report say anything about HMRC's £8bn ASPIRE contract? The Poynter report is the best thing that has happened to HMRC for decades. It highlights the institutional ...
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HMRC loss of child benefit CDs - latest
25 Jun 2008 -
Everyday NPfIT security breaches - don't tell us says NHS head
25 Jun 2008 -
Hansard cleans up a tense exchange on NPfIT
25 Jun 2008 -
NPfIT Lorenzo - replaced for time being by new software?
23 Jun 2008 -
Unite tries to save 700 Fujitsu NPfIT job cuts
20 Jun 2008 -
Alert over NPfIT Lorenzo?
20 Jun 2008 -
Password-sharing - don't shoot doctors says clinical lead
19 Jun 2008
1) Letter from Dave Hartnett, Acting Chairman of HM Revenue and Customs to Jane Kennedy, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. 2) Chancellor's statement to the House of Commons 3) Summary of report ...
The overall senior responsible owner of the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] has said the Department of Health does not wish to be told of day-to-day breaches of security. David Nicholson, ...
Hansard - the official recorder of proceedings in Parliament - has slightly cleaned up a tense exchange between an MP and a senior civil servant over the National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. It's not ...
CSC, the main supplier of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT], has confirmed that it is considering offering alternative software to NHS trusts ahead of the clinical functionality being planned ...
Unite, the UK's largest union, has called the government to act quickly and decisively to safeguard the jobs and skills of hundreds of people working on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT ...
Comment: At the HC2008 Healthcare Computing conference in April - I was glad I attended - staff from CSC were on the stand of "Alert", demonstrating a Portugese patient management and electronic ...
Peter Curry, Clinical Lead eHealth, NHS Fife, makes some pertinent comments in response to an article on this blog about the sharing of passwords on a hospital PACS x-ray system. He says the ...
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Secret report on NPfIT Lorenzo: hundreds of issues
19 Jun 2008 -
NPfIT systems not so resilient
18 Jun 2008 -
Politics and NPfIT clash - a pity for patients
18 Jun 2008 -
Fujitsu in 2007 "We're in NPfIT to stay"
18 Jun 2008 -
Fujitsu says NHS's NPfIT terms were unaffordable
17 Jun 2008
Specialists preparing software for a roll-out to NHS hospitals this year under the £12.7bn NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] have been trying to fix hundreds of issues in the initial release, ...
On Monday 2 June 2008 an NHS trust IT manager was so irritated by a lack of access to the Personal Demographics Service - a part of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT]- that he sent an email to ...
Comment: When Labour commissioned a genuinely independent report on what was needed to put right a project to deliver software for a new air traffic control centre at Swanwick, it did so largely ...
After suggestions in 2007 that Fujitsu might not remain as a local service provider on the National Programme for IT I formally asked the company: "Will Fujitsu be a local service provider to the ...
A director of Fujitsu Services says the supplier withdrew from talks to re-negotiate parts of its £1bn contract with the Department of Health because the terms set down by the health service were ...