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Trust’s plan to buy finance system with UCLH demonstrates local co-operation
Will Smart, director of IM&T for Royal Free Hampstead, on how he and colleagues are trying to connect London’s hospitals. Continue reading “London hospitals need better connections: Royal Free IM&T head”
Has North Bristol NHS trust found the answer to providing efficient health and social care after hospital closures?
This article appeared in the Guardian’s Society pages on 4 January 2012. I also wrote about North Bristol NHS trust’s progress towards its Southmead superhospital for Guardian Healthcare Network, based on the same set of interviews.
This image was taken of the site when I visited Southmead in mid-December 2011. Continue reading “NHS trust plans alternative to ‘outdated hospital model’”
Promoters of social care reforms are claiming that they could mean significant savings on healthcare
Andrew Dilnot’s plans have since been considered, altered, then rejected by the government. Continue reading “How Andrew Dilnot and social care might save the NHS”
East Midlands trust advertises 15 year informatics deal which may involve other NHS organisations
University Hospitals of Leicester plans for a single partner for IT work. Continue reading “University Hospitals of Leicester seeks £600m partner for IT transformation”
The government’s apparent ending of the NHS IT programme leaves NHS CfH and its BT and CSC contracts unaffected
I wrote about the end of the NHS’s National Programme for IT on many occasions. In each case, the changes represented a scaling-down, not a cancellation. On health records, while England planned something big then reduced it, Scotland planned something reasonable and did it.
Continue reading “Scrapping the National Programme for IT: a journey not a destination”