NHS removes key data from Summary Care Record
The NHS will stick with the controversial Summary Care Record, but with some significant concessions to public concerns, the Department of Health has confirmed to <em>Computerworld UK</em>.
The NHS will stick with the controversial Summary Care Record, but with some significant concessions to public concerns, the Department of Health has confirmed to <em>Computerworld UK</em>.
Societe Generale has said it will not call on former trader Jerome Kerviel to pay the full 4.9 billion (£4.3 billion) fine handed down to him by a Paris court on Tuesday.
The Information Commissioner's Office has called for significant improvements to data protection laws.
The Information Commissioner has confirmed his office is investigating a major data breach at a UK law firm, an examination that could result in a £500,000 fine.
The UK National Health Service has axed a huge licensing deal with Microsoft, originally estimated as being worth £500 million.
The troubled £12.7 billion (US$19.1 billion) NHS National Programme for IT is set to be overhauled, after the Department of Health said it would slash spending on consultants for centralised programmes, and promised an "information revolution".
Businesses remain very overconfident about security, according to an extensive study on their practices.
The Digital Economy Bill will be debated today by the Lords, who will decide if it becomes law, after being <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/legislation/news/index.cfm?newsid=19734">controversially rushed through</a> in a vote in the House of Commons.
A large-scale IT failure forced London Underground to shut a major commuter line for much of the day yesterday.
The <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsId=19642">£13bn (US$19.8 billion) NHS National Programme for IT</a> (NPfIT) is facing collapse, after the Department of Health refused to sign a revised a deal with CSC as the outsourcer missed another deadline.
The <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/careers-hr/people-management/news/index.cfm?newsid=18973">BBC</a> has announced it is slashing the amount of money it spends on its website.
BSkyB has won at least a substantial part of its <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/services-sourcing/news/index.cfm?newsId=17300">£709 million (US$1.15 billion) lawsuit against EDS</a>, over a failed £48 million customer system implementation.
Hundreds of staff at both HP and Fujitsu have taken part in two separate <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/careers-hr/people-management/news/index.cfm?newsid=18423">strikes</a> today, affecting major government and private sector IT contracts.
The Conservative Party today fired off its election-year campaigning with a focus on changing NHS IT and management, insisting that under a Tory government patients would control their own digital records online.
The government was last night accused of being "thoroughly complacent", over the detail in leaked plans to slash billions of pounds from IT expenditure.