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National Health Executive is proud to announce details of its editorial board, comprising senior figures from throughout the
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sector who have been advising on our content, contributing to the publication, and discussing some of the biggest trends and issues affecting NHS managers and clini- cal staff.
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Michael Dixon – Chair, NHS Alliance
James Gubb – formerly Civitas
Dave Haslam – Chair, National Obesity Forum
Mike Knapton – Associate Medical Director, British Heart Foundation
David Colin-Thome – former National Clinical Director for Primary Care
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Julia Manning – Chief Executive,
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Lord Victor Adebowale – Chief Executive, Turning Point
Nina Pinwill – Associate Director, NICE
Matthew Swindells – Chair, BCS Health
BT, CSC and Fujitsu could ‘team up’ against the Government if it accepts a recommendation by MPs to scrap their NPfIT contracts, according to Department of Health legal advice.
“The risk of suppliers working in uni- son against the department is sig- nificant,” according to a DH memo to the Public Accounts Committee, whose report released on August 3 said the NPfIT had become “un- workable” and should be scrapped.
But terminating the remainder of CSC’s £3bn contract, and BT’s £1bn contract, could not only cost more than seeing the contracts through, according to the Government, but also have “unquantifiable collateral damage” in the DH’s ongoing legal battle with Fujitsu, which walked away from its contract in 2008.
Independent IT consultants sug- gest the DH is treading too lightly in its dealings with the providers and
overestimating the potential costs of walking away.
The PAC report is critical of both CSC – which on July 31 completed its acquisition of iSoft – and BT.
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar said: “The PAC’s report nails down the much-publicised problems that have hounded the programme for years. While pro- gress has been made in a number
of areas, our members have raised concerns about the costly, central- ised system that has been devised on too large a scale to be fully ef- fective.
“This report presents the opportu- nity for a much-needed review of NPfIT and the how the NHS can best spend tighter finances on a workable solution.”
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Christine Connelly, chief informa- tion officer at the Department of Health, resigned at the end of June after three years in the post.
She said she decided to quit ahead of a reorganisation of senior man- agement which will result in fewer director general posts.
In a statement, she said: “I have been reflecting on whether I would wish to go for one of those roles and decided that I will not.”
The former Cadbury Schweppes CIO had been heading up the Na- tional Programme for IT (NPfIT), and has been replaced on a tempo- rary basis by Katie Davis, executive director of operational excellence at the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency & Reform Group.
NHS chief executive Sir David Nichol- son said Connelly has made a major contribution to the health service.
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