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Summary Care Record “unreliable”
By Tony Collins The central Summary Care Record database (which is run by BT under its NPfIT Spine contract) is proving unreliable, Pulse reports today. The SCR is supposed to give clinicians ,...
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How to cost-justify the NPfIT disaster – forecast benefits a decade away
By Tony Collins To Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, the NPfIT was a failure. In an interview with the FT, reported on 2 June 2013, Hunt said of the NPfIT “It was a huge disaster . . . It was a...
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Firecontrol disaster and NPfIT – two of a kind?
By Tony Collins Today’s report of the Public Account Committee on the Firecontrol project could, in many ways, be a report on the consequences of the failure of the National Programme for IT in the NHS...
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When “life and death” NHS IT goes down
By Tony Collins Almost unnoticed outside the NHS an email was circulated by health officials last weekend about a national “severity 1″ incident involving the Electronic Prescription Service, running...
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NHS “Wachter” digital review is delayed – but does it matter?
By Tony Collins The Wachter review of NHS technology was due to be published in June but has been delayed. Would it matter if it were delayed indefinitely? A “Yes Minister” programme about a new...
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