Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been hit with pound 325,000 monetary penalty for breaching the Data Protection Act. The penalty is the highest since the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was granted the ...
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS trust moved its systems into the cloud to solve immediate business challenges and prepare for a future of shared services. Last year WWL NHS trust was faced with major IT challenges as its ...
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For those with a taste for the best in life, the Ritz, Hilton and Malmaison are probably among the hotel brands of choice. But now a new entrant is hoping to shake things up – the NHS. And officials say it will shatter preconceptions ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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Barts Health NHS Trust, in England, has selected Hyland Software's enterprise content management (ECM) solution, OnBase, to streamline electronic patient records (EPR). OnBase is expected to reduce the cost and physical space required for ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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Mersey Care NHS Trust has signed a £3m deal for cloud services, in a move intended to deliver around £1.5m in savings. Under the five-year contract, Mersey Care NHS Trusts' operational data and ICT infrastructure will move to ...
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UK - Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's finances have received a long-term boost after cost-saving LED lighting was installed throughout its Leatherhead headquarters. The Trust's offices are now benefitting from the ...
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The Department of Health has reiterated its commitment to get all patient records online by 2015, in its first mandate between the government and the NHS Commissioning Board. The document also states that electronic health records must be ...
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An NHS trust is to challenge a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)in a case that could set an important precedent. The NHS trust is to be the first public sector organisation to challenge the UK ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
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Express mail and logistics provider Crossflight sees cloud storage as positive for well-defined services like CRM and email,but less so for more complex,bespoke applications. The firm expressed the view following a deal with EMC to drive ...
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£21,000 cost savings Energy consumption reduced by 68% Maintenance programme reduced by over a third Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust expect to achieve savings in the region of £21,000 after retrofitting ...
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