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NHS trusts offer £5m wad for pics and comms gear

Will include voice recog and image archives

NHS Trusts in the dark over CfH licence transfer

Please shed light on our software budgets

CSC pockets £68m in truce over NHS patient database fiasco

Waves goodbye to original £2.9bn contract
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NHS IT bods 'walk out' in pay row with crashed UK tech giant 2e2

A number of contractors from collapsed UK tech giant 2e2 refused to turn up for work in NHS IT today after their January pay was withheld, it is claimed. Debt-crippled 2e2 Group went into administration this week and put staff wages under "review", but its new handlers assured health service bosses that hospitals are a top …
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NHS Trust ditches in-house servers, chucks 15TB into the cloud

NHS Trust Mersey Care is trying to eke out 15 per cent cost savings by ditching its in-house server farm in favour of SCC's OptimiseCloud platform. Mersey is the first NHS Trust in England to jump into the cloud, and is one of nine under the guidance of Informatics Merseyside, a central buying agency which signed a cloud …
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Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS

UK.gov lifts ban after cost-cutting crunch talks

2e2 cloud cash fiasco puts NHS IT and biz 'over a barrel'

What's that sound? Ah, it's rivals circling overhead
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NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend

The Cabinet Office is halting all but emergency purchases of Microsoft software in the NHS as it negotiates a pan-government procurement deal with the software giant. The Crown Representative, headed by former Micro Focus CEO Stephen Kelly – appointed by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude in April – is leading talks with 20 …
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Capita buys chunk of troubled NHS software firm iSoft

Capita has bought part of the troubled Australian healthcare IT provider iSoft for £23m. iSoft Business Solutions (iBS) is a subsidiary that provides accounting and purchasing software to about 60 per cent of NHS trusts. The sell-off is part of an effort to reduce iSoft's £150m debt burden. iBS turned over £17.7m in the …

NHS loses massive Microsoft licensing rebate

World's largest licensing deal ditched

HP and Epic 'preferred bidders' for UK eHospital plan

NHS trusts to ink 10-year deal to move to shared platform

Therapy for 2e2 survivors: Online confab on 12 April at 2pm BST

Live Chat Relive the pain and learn with The Channel ed Paul Kunert

iSoft in critical condition as NHS trusts seek alternatives

Updated Upgrade waiting list just too long

Lawyer: 2e2 customers should act quickly as liquidation looms

'Critical' alternatives must be sought - legal eagle

VC plans to flog or float public sector biz Civica next year

Sugar daddies at 3i ponders exit route

Titsup 2e2's data centre dustup gave UK users the CLOUD FEAR

Vendors struggling to reinflate the bubble

NHS trust deploys target-meeting software

Come in number 8, it's time to cut you up
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Sir Alan Sugar hails £30m 'equitable' Viglen win

Viglen, the UK PC maker, has won a Office of Government Commerce contract worth up to £30m to supply public sector organisations with 70,000 PCs. Its chairman, Sir Alan Sugar, is very pleased indeed. “We are delighted to have been awarded this contract on an equitable basis”, he says. Does this suggest to you that he thinks some …

Opinion

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
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Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

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