Conservative party Archives

14 April 2015

Tory manifesto re-runs access pledge

The Conservative Party has promised to continue the NHS transparency agenda and to give people “full access” to their electronic

1 October 2014

Hunt extends Challenge Fund by £100m

The government will extend its £50m primary care Challenge Fund by a further £100m, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.

28 January 2010

First European deal for HealthVault

Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.

28 December 2009

Lansley may abandon LSP contracts

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider

28 October 2009

NHS staff admit to being DNAs

A survey of health professionals attending an NHS Alliance event found that three out of ten have missed a medical appointment.

10 September 2009

Arctic blast

A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will

10 August 2009

Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT

The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited

7 August 2009

Pharmacists warn on personal records

Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk

24 July 2009

Swine flu website crashes on launch day

The National Pandemic Flu Service website crashed on the day it was launched after the site recorded more than 9.3m

18 June 2009

Safety focus at BCSPHSG conference

Patient safety when using interoperable systems and sharing data will come under the spotlight at the British Computer Society’s Primary