Services giant CSC,which had a spectacular dispute with the government over its work on the NHS National Programme for IT(NPfIT),is on course to implement its first patient records system after a national agreement was reached earlier this ...
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The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which, it says, will save it as much as £1bn. The agreement was formally reached on ...
TWO million people in the UK face increased risk of health problems, campaigners have warned, following a European ban on incandescent bulbs starting today. While the move to energy-saving bulbs has been widely welcomed, there are ...
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A European ban on incandescent bulb takes effect in the UK since 1, September, despite the move to energy-saving bulbs has been widely welcomed, campaigners have warned that there are concerns about the impact on people who are sensitive to ...
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The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which,it says,will save it as much as£1bn. Further reading CSC and the NHS:Lorenzo ...
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The Department of Health (DoH) today announced new funding to encourage new digital services for sharing data within the NHS. The Information Sharing Challenge Fund will enable NHS organisations to bid for up to £99,000 to put their ...
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The Department of Health's (DoH) financial exposure to its toxic contracts with troubled NHS supplier CSC has decreased by £100m in just three months. In CSC's latest quarterly results, the outsourcer estimated that if the NHS were ...
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"It's not our policy to comment on things like that,"said a spokesman for ArcelorMittal,the world's largest steel producer,which outsourced its IT to CSC in July 2011. Transport for London(TfL),which in January renewed a CSC contract on ...
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The Scottish government is to create a food standards watchdog for the country. The new body will oversee issues including food safety, nutrition and labelling in Scotland. It follows changes to the remit of the UK's Food Standards ...
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The Scottish government has announced its plans to create a stand-alone food standards agency for the region,which will cover food safety,standards,nutrition,labelling and meat inspection. This decision comes two years after the ...
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Some 29 NHS Trusts across London and south England have issued a framework tender worth EURO 300m for clinical information systems. Camden EURO Islington NHS Foundation Trust will lead the four-year framework, valued from EURO50m to ...
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Troubled IT supplier CSC is continuing to drag its feet over a proposed deal by the Department of Health to free trusts from contractual obligations to use its electronic patient records software Lorenzo . The deal was supposed to be ...
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U.S officials have issued a warning list of chemicals and biological agents that may put people at increased risk for cancer. The congressionally mandated 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC), prepared for the Department of Health and Human ...
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