NHS

On-Prem

A fifth of England's NHS trusts are mostly paper-based as they grapple with COVID backlog, warn MPs

Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout

07 Jan 2022 10:17 | 67

Updated

Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid

17 Dec 2021 13:58 | 8

Security

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

App runs off a database, and databases are run by humans

16 Dec 2021 16:04 | 105

Off-Prem

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

£37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body

07 Dec 2021 11:30 | 34

Off-Prem

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure

22 Nov 2021 16:15 | 55

Off-Prem

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards

18 Nov 2021 14:45 | 39

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E

Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...

14 Oct 2021 09:15 | 19

Databases

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

12 Oct 2021 13:02 | 150

Databases

UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July

19 Aug 2021 10:43 | 31

Updated

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods

18 Aug 2021 13:29 | 70

Personal Tech

Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement

Anyone fancy applying?

10 Aug 2021 15:03 | 59

Databases

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog

02 Aug 2021 10:41 | 19

Databases

Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is

Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls

29 Jul 2021 08:30 | 82

Databases

Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit

'Campaign of engagement and communication' might not include letter, but junior minister doesn't rule it out

21 Jul 2021 12:15 | 39

Databases

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data

20 Jul 2021 11:31 | 89

Software

How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs

After a troubled birth, infamous but effective code becomes an inconvience

15 Jul 2021 12:15 | 92

Personal Tech

NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline

£200m tender is latest step in never-ending journey toward a paperless utopia

13 Jul 2021 11:30 | 13

Software

PPE, Part II: UK health department takes second stab at e-commerce system for personal protective equipment

Let's hope this time a shortage can be averted

05 Jul 2021 12:15 | 5

Databases

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg

05 Jul 2021 10:01 | 49

Legal

IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison

Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands

02 Jul 2021 12:14 | 41

Software

When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer

29 Jun 2021 11:29 | 97

Databases

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis

25 Jun 2021 16:00 | 27

Updated

BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves

Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union

25 Jun 2021 10:45 | 21

Databases

UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'

As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists

22 Jun 2021 13:30 | 101

Comment

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

09 Jun 2021 09:15 | 86

Databases

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

08 Jun 2021 13:59 | 64

Databases

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

07 Jun 2021 14:29 | 41

Software

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach

07 Jun 2021 13:01 | 50

Databases

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

04 Jun 2021 15:01 | 50

Databases

NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

We've kind of got a lot going on right now with vaccinating etc... maybe you could do the comms bit, huh?

01 Jun 2021 12:17 | 16

Legal

Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k

Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered

28 May 2021 14:29 | 30

Databases

Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp

Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not?

24 May 2021 09:47 | 51

Security

Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged

No policy shakeup to deal with snatch of info from primary physicians

17 May 2021 09:18 | 39

Updated

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal'

13 May 2021 09:15 | 223

PaaS + IaaS

AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland

Amazon's cloud factory hits £300m under 'One Government' agreement

12 May 2021 08:30 | 10

Security

NHS App gets go-ahead for vaccine passport use despite protest from privacy groups

Big Brother Watch warns app contains too much sensitive medical information

11 May 2021 15:15 | 51

Applications

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website

06 May 2021 18:37 | 41

Security

Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'

Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad

28 Apr 2021 14:32 | 128

Off-Prem

UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over

Looks like classic case of failing to scale to meet inevitable demand

13 Apr 2021 11:04 | 62

Applications

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules

13 Apr 2021 06:27 | 32

Updated

Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic

A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye

30 Mar 2021 14:00 | 17

Column

Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts

Nope, COVID-19 is not a catch-all excuse for backdoor deals

01 Mar 2021 09:29 | 67

AI + ML

Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir

Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party

24 Feb 2021 14:15 | 14

Updated

UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift

Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs

23 Feb 2021 12:29 | 27

Offbeat

Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000

Bloke was placed into vulnerable category because of his weight

19 Feb 2021 17:16 | 92

Devops

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Fail fast, fail often

15 Feb 2021 10:32 | 24

Legal

You'd have told them they should have used Apple/Google app model, right? NHSX seeks willing humans to fill health tech and data roles

£93k should help interested parties stomach challenge amid tumultuous change

08 Feb 2021 13:03 | 16

On-Prem

12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible

Ain't nobody got time for that

25 Jan 2021 14:02 | 6

Software

NHS COVID-19 app is trying to tell Android users something but buggy notification appears stuck on 'Loading...' screen

The suspense could quite literally be killing us

13 Jan 2021 13:15 | 36

Software

Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?

Vendors slammed for 'lack of proper judgement' during the pandemic

12 Jan 2021 13:46 | 54

Updated

UK's NHS Digital hands £8m contract to lab data biz after trouble matching COVID-19 tests to health records

Without competition due to 'extreme urgency' around pandemic

05 Jan 2021 15:59 | 32

On-Prem

North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal

Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out

22 Dec 2020 16:28 | 21

Legal

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir

Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those

21 Dec 2020 16:02 | 39

Software

NHS trust launches £60m software procurement to improve staffing efficiency

Chester healthcare provider needs some tech to help wrangle its temps

21 Dec 2020 10:30 | 15

Legal

£8bn digitisation strategy for UK's health service doesn't count as a strategy, says spending watchdog

'It does not set out how the NHS will deliver its ambitions in practice'. As for that paperless NHS? Strategy watered down and deadline dates moved

10 Nov 2020 11:00 | 11

Software

Update to NHS COVID-19 app brings improved warnings, end to 'ghost' notifications

It's all about timing, apparently

29 Oct 2020 19:00 | 32

Software

Much like the British on holiday, NHS COVID-19 app refuses to work with phones using unsupported languages

Issue affects Android devices but fix said to be imminent

28 Oct 2020 19:15 | 48

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A fifth of England's NHS trusts are mostly paper-based as they grapple with COVID backlog, warn MPs

Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m for Test and Trace system for another year

IBM tossed £20m to keep the Trace side of NHS Test and Trace services running

UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is

Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs

NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline

PPE, Part II: UK health department takes second stab at e-commerce system for personal protective equipment

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison

When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves

UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k

Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp

Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland

NHS App gets go-ahead for vaccine passport use despite protest from privacy groups

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'

UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic

Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts

Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir

UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift

Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

You'd have told them they should have used Apple/Google app model, right? NHSX seeks willing humans to fill health tech and data roles

12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible

NHS COVID-19 app is trying to tell Android users something but buggy notification appears stuck on 'Loading...' screen

Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?

UK's NHS Digital hands £8m contract to lab data biz after trouble matching COVID-19 tests to health records

North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir

NHS trust launches £60m software procurement to improve staffing efficiency

£8bn digitisation strategy for UK's health service doesn't count as a strategy, says spending watchdog

Update to NHS COVID-19 app brings improved warnings, end to 'ghost' notifications

Much like the British on holiday, NHS COVID-19 app refuses to work with phones using unsupported languages

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