It is a common assumption that the NHS can’t do IT. This is untrue: most GP surgeries are computerised, the health services of the UK’s constituent nations have decent technology infrastructure ...

The government's £12.4bn NHS IT project must be subject to an independent external audit to get it back on track and ensure the promised productivity benefits are delivered, Derek Wanless has warned.

An incoming Conservative government would fundamentally alter NHS information technology systems, according to plans revealed on Monday. If elected, the party would "dismantle Labour's central NHS IT ...

Royal Berkshire NHS Trust, which dramatically quit the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in 2008, has signed a deal with CSC – the National Programme provider whose performance was heavily criticised ...

[Leeds, UK] NHS Digital is co-ordinating a new digital exemplar scheme for trusts that deployed the Lorenzo IT system through the now-dismantled National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The initiative will ...

The new National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) is at risk despite costing millions, because staff locally have been left feeling disengaged in the process, says a study in this week's BMJ. NPfIT ...

After three damning reports the NHS IT programme is finally put out of its misery. So now what? There have been a lot of words written following the government's announcement that it had "accelerated ...

Taxpayer spending so far on the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has risen to £5.1bn, which is more than the scheme’s original total lifecycle cost. The programme is in its seventh year and is ...

Accenture, the biggest and most successful regional contractor working on the NHS's troubled £6.2bn IT overhaul, is poised to pull out of the project. This will be a body blow for the NHS as Accenture ...

Hospitals across England and Wales are set to reap savings of 90 per cent on storage hardware procurement costs as poorly conceived storage deals, designed under the discredited National Programme for ...

CSC has insisted its work on the £11.7 billion Department of Health National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is going "very well", two weeks after ministers were advised by a powerful committee to . The ...

The government's ambitious vision for a single, standardised IT programme that would drag NHS creaking paper records systems into the 21st century was always going to be a challenge. The largest ...