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28 July 2010
Ian Herbert, Vice Chair of BCS Health Informatics Forum and newest member of the Mantis Advisory Panel has written, exclusively for Mantis, a review and summary of the informatics implications of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's new whitepaper: "Equality and excellence, liberating the NHS" Download
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20 July 2010
Birmingham tomorrow - client meeting at 10. Elbow space and 3G signal permitting, I should get some work done on the train.
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19 July 2010
The Metropolitan Police Service has extended its IT support contract with Capgemini. The service has prolonged the deal to run until December 2015. Capgemini said the extension is valued at £193m. More
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19 July 2010
BSF programme axed by Gove, confusion around the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, has been cleared up by Schools minister, Michael Gove, who has axed it.
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19 July 2010
It's not all doom and gloom at the moment; The Welsh Assembly government has confirmed more funding for schools ICT
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16 July 2010
Health secretary Andrew Lansley's new whitepaper spells out big changes for the NHS
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12 July 2010
We're just back from a very good marketing planning meeting with Optevia (borrowed a meeting room at Microsoft in Reading). New blog and twitter campaign on its way!
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23 June 2010
Sarah Burnett from Ovum says budget could turn out to be among the best things to happen to cloud computing in the UK public sector. More
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22 June 2010
Now registered for Fire & Rescue, 29-30 June 2010
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17 June 2010
Later this month, the Scottish Gov will launch a new tenders database to simplify how SMEs bid for Scottish public sector contracts
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15 June 2010
Smart Healthcare / Smart Gov Live first day report: lots of interesting exhibitors, but it seemed quiet, some areas of the hall worse than others. I certainly wasn't feeling claustrophobic in the isles! Let's see what day two is like.
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10 June 2010
I'm not a fan of the phrase, but Computing's Nicola Brittain says F.U.D (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is returning to industry because of the Government's spending plans
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8 June 2010
Two meetings tomorrow: OCF (in Soho) and Simpl (in Charing Cross). One for breakfast and one for lunch!
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1 June 2010
Now registered for Smart Healthcare Live. Anyone for coffee?
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27 May 2010
Currently pondering the hidden significance of calling the fire service (to deal with a local forest fire) the evening before attending the Chief Fire Officers Association's annual ICT event ... off to Smart Healthcare Live in June, hope the coincidence is a one off!
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