All NHS IT programme articles – Page 7
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News
Data quality requires careful analysis
Your article on the King's Fund's report into variations in primary care trust spending raises several issues. Although the data we used does allow an insight into spending, we warned that a degree of caution should be exercised with the figures. Data quality is an issue and so too is ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Frank Burns on the health informatics review
I've been writing this column now for two years or so and I fear this might be my last piece - not because I want to give up this marvellous platform to peddle my personal passion for clinical IT, but because I'm beginning to wonder if my difficulties in understanding ...
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News
£75m pledged to tackle childhood obesity
The government is to launch a £75m national programme aimed at tackling childhood obesity and has asked local authorities and primary care trusts to align their local initiatives to the new brand - Change4Life.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS work experience: a crucial stepping stone
In the second in our series of work experience diaries, we follow Lyndon, who spent a week at Southampton General Hospital two years ago
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HSJ Knowledge
NICE awards promote shared learning
With the next stage review promoting quality over cost, now is the time to develop better ways of sharing best practice. As the closing date for the annual NICE awards nears, HSJ talks to last year's winners
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News
Surrey is first to agree its integrated care proposals
The first primary care trust to unveil its plans for an integrated care pilot has warned that commissioners will have to overcome existing 'anomalies' to make the initiative work.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS work experience: getting on board
Work experience is a valuable way of encouraging people to consider a career in the NHS. In the first of a series of work experience diaries, we meet Cara, aged 17, a work experience student at Southampton General Hospital's radiography department
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: All roads lead to IT
BT is dedicated to a future where information technology works for healthcare on all fronts, says Lyn Whitfield
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: Diamond sixty
Who are the most influential people in the last 60 years of the National Health Service? HSJ invited a panel of prestigious judges to pick 60 people who have been central in shaping today’s NHS. This list includes politicians, managers, professionals, campaigners, civil servants, historians and designers
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HSJ Knowledge
Progress, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder
The very latest view of progress with the national IT strategy is contained in the recently published document Supporting Transformation - the first of what promises to be an annual statement of programme benefits.Naturally enough this report accentuates the positive and a quick superficial read will give the intended impression ...
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HSJ Knowledge
security
The nation’s headline writers did not hold back when HM Revenue and Customs was forced to admit that it had lost the confidential details of every child benefit claimant in the country.Words like “shocking” and “fiasco” featured above the first stories about how the information had vanished after a “junior ...
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Comment
Creating a fearless ITC strategy
Trevor Ludlam's organisation used the national programme for IT as a springboard for implementing a wide range of IT innovations. From integrated patient records to digital pens in A&E, here he explains what they did and how they did it
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Comment
Trevor Ludlam on
The National Programme for IT was established to deliver front-line systems and services that would deliver major benefits for NHS organisations, staff and patients. Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service has been steadily turning the vision of integrated information, communication and technology into a reality.Having just retired as director of Nottinghamshire Health ...
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Comment
Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends
Those of us interested in the genesis of high-profile national policy will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4's Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 Sir John Pattison, then responsible Director for NHS IT, was given all of 10 minutes to make a pitch to the then prime minister ...
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HSJ Knowledge
National IT programme timeline
March 2002: A new direction for NHS IT announced, based on national standards and procurement from a limited list of suppliersJune 2002: The Department of Health publishes the IT strategy Delivering 21st-Century IT Support for the NHS: a national strategic programmeOctober 2002: Richard Granger appointed director general of NHS ITDecember ...
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HSJ Knowledge
National IT programme glossary
NHS CfH: NHS Connecting for Health is the government agency that runs the national IT programmeNPfIT: the national programme for IT is responsible for digitising the NHSEnterprise-wide agreement: a deal for the whole NHS with a commercial software provider such as Oracle or MicrosoftGPSoC: GP systems of choice, a programme ...
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Comment
Michael White on data security
When I heard that young Tory thruster George Osborne warn that the fiasco over the two missing child benefit discs from HM Revenue and Customs will prove the 'final blow' to the British ID card scheme, I wondered what it might also mean for the NHS.
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News
NHS set for £13m net surplus despite rising levels of debt
The NHS is predicted to make a £13m surplus this financial year, according to the latest Department of Health forecasts.
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News
NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'