David Nicholson

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18 June 2008

CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’

The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon
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17 June 2008

Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments

NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become
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28 May 2008

Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’

Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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23 May 2008

Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost

An encrypted back-up tape containing the medical records of over 38,000 patients from the Isle of Wight PCT has gone
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20 May 2008

BT boss to take over at King’s College

Tim Smart the current chief executive of BT Global Services UK, the BT division responsible for over £3 billion of
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28 April 2008

NHS chief execs may be accountable for data loss

The Information Commissioner has backed proposals by cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell to hold senior Whitehall figures and NHS chief executives
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15 April 2008

Most GP systems will require security upgrades

The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer
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10 April 2008

Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication

The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position
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14 March 2008

NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years

The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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