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FSA charges four ex-directors of NHS software supplier
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| The Financial Services Authority has confirmed
| that it is starting criminal proceedings
| against four former directors of iSoft Group
| plc - the major provider of patient records
| software for the NHS's National Programme for
| IT.
|
| [...]
|
| It said at that time that commercial director
| Steve Graham, and another employee, had been
| put on special leave following a company
| investigation into accounting irregularities
| in 2004 and 2005.
|
| iSoft shares collapsed in the wake of that
| news and in September 2006 it emerged that the
| Department of Health had bailed out the
| struggling software firm with Â82m of
| taxpayers' cash.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/isoft_charges/
Recent:
NHS spend on IT - How would you make savings?
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| Here's another thought. If you were to put a
| Linux-based operating system on the 800,000
| or so workstations now in the NHS and some
| FOSS productivity software such as
| OpenOffice, which incidentally will interface
| with more professional database server
| systems than many proprietary packages, how
| much would that cost (other than the man-
| hours for the installs)? Zilch. Zippo. FA.
| What if the NHS were to donate 1 GBP for each
| machine to the Linux distribution developers
| of their chosen O/S, and 1 GBP towards each
| OpenOffice installation? That would cost
| Â1,600,000 or less than a third of one
| percent of the existing discounted Microsoft
| licensing. That relatively small donation
| would also ensure some future development of
| features needed by NHS staff in their chosen
| software.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014580o-2000673651b,00.htm
Troubled Â12bn NHS IT system to be scaled back
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| The government is to scale back its Â12bn NHS
| IT system in what the Tories are calling a
| "massive U-turn".
|
| Chancellor Alistair Darling said he would be
| delaying parts of the scheme in Wednesday's
| pre-Budget Report as it was "not essential to
| the frontline".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8397854.stm
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