All articles by Ben Heather – Page 6
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NewsMajor IT supplier pays out to NHS over misleading reports
England’s biggest supplier of GP IT has reached a multimillion pound settlement after the company admitted to providing misleading information about the quality of its service.
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NewsCCGs object to demand for GP at Hand payment
London commissioners have contested demands that they help pay for the escalating cost associated with GP at Hand, according to committee papers.
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Exclusive: Supplier faces 'big penalties' after huge NHS email shutdown
Consultancy firm Accenture is very likely to face “big penalties” after a software upgrade led to the complete shutdown of the NHS email service, HSJ has been told.
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NewsUpdate: Most NHS email accounts restored after mass shutdown
Most NHS email accounts are back online after a mass shutdown on Saturday that froze staff access to their accounts around the country.
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NewsExclusive: Hancock says his endorsement of GP at Hand helped competitors
Matt Hancock has told NHS IT suppliers his endorsement of GP at Hand has helped its competitors, even as he faces fresh criticism for supporting the digital GP practice.
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NewsTens of millions of patient records to move to Amazon cloud
More than 40 million UK patient records will be shifted onto Amazon Web Services, as part of a wider upgrade by the dominant NHS GP IT supplier.
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NewsFire service to ferry winter hospital patients home
A local fire service has stepped in to help a struggling hospital trust ferry patients home as part of its winter plans.
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NewsUniversity hospital opens China office after CEO trip
One of the country’s biggest trusts has opened an office in China, with the chief executive meeting with a “very influential person in Beijing”.
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NewsRevealed: £700m NHS IT network upgrade delays
Plans to move the NHS to a new national IT network by 2020 are in doubt because of “vendor handover” delays.
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NewsShelford Group trust chief criticised over unfair dismissal
A Shelford Group chief executive was “deliberately misleading” or failed to show sufficient “care and attention” in the dismissal of a whistleblowing surgeon, an employment tribunal has said.
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NewsNew tech team to clean up trust IT fiascos
A new central technology team is being parachuted into NHS trusts to clean up after major IT deployments go wrong.
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NewsIT systems for dozens of GP practices down for a week
Dozens of GP practices in West Yorkshire have been without basic IT systems for eight days after an air conditioning unit failed.
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NewsIT defect results in thousands of prescription errors
An error in an IT system used by thousands of GP practices means patients around the country could have been given the wrong medication.
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NewsHancock outlines tech vision with new 'mandatory' IT standards
The NHS should move NHS data and IT systems onto the cloud, using a system like those run by tech giants like Microsoft or Amazon, according to a document outlining the health secretary’s “tech vision”.
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NewsExclusive: Tech priorities for the long term plan
Billions of pounds could be spent expanding artificial intelligence, telehealth and a host of new tech projects to support NHS long term plan ambitions, HSJ had been told.
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NewsRevealed: Officials' £13bn funding ask to modernise NHS IT
Implementing the forthcoming long term plan for the NHS will require up to £13bn in IT spending over the next five years, according to official estimates, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPoor uptake of new scheme to give patients control of confidential records
A new national system to give NHS patients control over sharing their confidential health records has been used by less than 5,000 people, leading to accusations that it has been poorly publicised.