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NHS Connecting for Health

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NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) Agency was part of the UK Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. [1]

77 relations: Accenture, Atos, Barnet General Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC News, Big Brother Awards, Brian Randell, British Computer Society, BT Group, Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Cerner, Chase Farm Hospital, Choose and Book, Citizen Information Project, Computer Sciences Corporation, ContactPoint, Cost overrun, Daily Mail, David Nicholson (civil servant), Deloitte, Department of Health and Social Care, Edward Leigh, Electronic Data Systems, Financial Services Authority, Fujitsu, General practitioner, Harold Thimbleby, Health and Social Care Network, Health informatics, Health Select Committee, Hospital trust, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Ian Sommerville (academic), Identity Cards Act 2006, Informing Healthcare, ISOFT, IT infrastructure, King's Fund, Leeds, London Borough of Enfield, London congestion charge, Lorenzo patient record systems, McKinsey & Company, Medical privacy, Megaproject, Member of parliament, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Michael F Smith, National Audit Office (United Kingdom), National Health Service (England), ..., NHS Care Records Service, NHS Digital, NHS Electronic Prescription Service, NHS Information Authority, NHS primary care trust, NHS-wide Clearing Service, NHS.net, NO2ID, OPCS-4, Picture archiving and communication system, Pound sterling, Privacy International, Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), Quality and Outcomes Framework, Ray Ison, Richard Granger, Ross J. Anderson, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Spine, Strategic health authority, Summary Care Record, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, Wales, West Yorkshire, White elephant. Expand index (27 more) »

Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.

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Atos

Atos is a European IT services corporation with its headquarters in Bezons, France and offices worldwide.

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Barnet General Hospital

Barnet Hospital is a hospital in Wellhouse Lane, Chipping Barnet, north London, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as part of the National Health Service.

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Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust is an NHS Trust operating in the City of London and East London.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Big Brother Awards

The Big Brother Awards (BBAs) recognize "the government and private sector organizations...

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Brian Randell

Brian Randell (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computers.

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British Computer Society

Sir Maurice Wilkes served as first President of BCS in 1957. The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company with head offices in London, United Kingdom.

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Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC (informally Cable & Wireless) was a British multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom.

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Cerner

Cerner Corporation is an American supplier of health information technology (HIT) solutions, services, devices and hardware.

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Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Hospital is a hospital in Gordon Hill, near Enfield, north London, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as part of the British National Health Service.

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Choose and Book

Choose and Book was an E-Booking software application for the National Health Service (NHS) in England which enabled patients needing an outpatient appointment to choose which hospital they were referred to by their general practitioner (GP), and to book a convenient date and time for their appointment.

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Citizen Information Project

In the United Kingdom, the Citizen Information Project (CIP) was a plan by the Office for National Statistics to build a national population register.

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Computer Sciences Corporation

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was an American multinational corporation that provided information technology (IT) services and professional services.

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ContactPoint

ContactPoint was a government database that held information on all children under 18 in England.

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Cost overrun

A cost overrun, also known as a cost increase, underrated or budget overrun, involves unexpected costs incurred in excess of budgeted amounts due to an underestimation of the actual cost during budgeting.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Nicholson (civil servant)

Sir David Nicholson, KCB, CBE is a public policy analyst and NHS manager who was Chief executive of NHS England.

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Deloitte

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a UK-incorporated multinational professional services network.

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Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of Her Majesty's Government, responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive.

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Edward Leigh

Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1983.

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Electronic Data Systems

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was an American multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Plano, Texas.

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Financial Services Authority

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was a quasi-judicial body responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013.

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Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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General practitioner

In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients.

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Harold Thimbleby

Harold W. Thimbleby (born 19 July 1955) is a British professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales.

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Health and Social Care Network

The Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) is a standards-based network that is replacing the N3 network in the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

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Health informatics

Health informatics (also called health care informatics, healthcare informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, or biomedical informatics) is information engineering applied to the field of health care, essentially the management and use of patient healthcare information.

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Health Select Committee

The Health Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the British House of Commons.

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Hospital trust

A hospital trust, also known as an acute trust is an NHS trust that provides secondary health services within the English National Health Service and, until they were abolished, in NHS Wales.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ian Sommerville (academic)

Ian F. Sommerville, (born 23 February 1951) is a British academic.

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Identity Cards Act 2006

The Identity Cards Act 2006 (c 15) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that has since been repealed.

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Informing Healthcare

Informing Healthcare was set up by the Welsh Assembly Government in December 2003 to improve healthcare services for people in Wales by introducing modern ways of sharing and using information.

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ISOFT

iSOFT is an international supplier of software applications for the healthcare sector.

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IT infrastructure

Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also various software and network components.

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King's Fund

The King's Fund is an independent think tank in England, which is involved with work relating to the health system in England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in north London, England.

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London congestion charge

The London congestion charge is a fee charged on most motor vehicles operating within the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) in Central London between 07:00 and 18:00 Mondays to Fridays.

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Lorenzo patient record systems

Lorenzo patient record systems are a type of Electronic health record provided by DXC Technology, originally as part of the United Kingdom government’s National Programme for IT (NHS Connecting for Health) in the NHS.

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McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm.

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Medical privacy

Medical privacy or health privacy is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records.

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Megaproject

A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) refers to a group of gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

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Michael F Smith

Michael F Smith (born 1948) is a computer scientist, medical informatician and businessman living in London.

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National Audit Office (United Kingdom)

The National Audit Office (NAO) is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

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National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United Kingdom.

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NHS Care Records Service

The NHS Care Records Service is a service provided by NHS Connecting for Health for the National Health Service in England.

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NHS Digital

NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service (England).

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NHS Electronic Prescription Service

The NHS Electronic Prescription Service is part of the NHS National Programme for IT of the National Health Service in England.

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NHS Information Authority

The NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) was part of the UK National Health Service (NHS).

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NHS primary care trust

A primary care trust (PCT) was part of the National Health Service in England from 2001 to 2013.

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NHS-wide Clearing Service

The NWCS was the NHS-wide Clearing Service for NHS England and NHS Wales.

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NHS.net

NHS.net is a Microsoft Outlook Web App email, diary and directory system for National Health Service (NHS) employees in England and Scotland.

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NO2ID

NO2ID is a public campaign group, formed in 2004 to campaign against the United Kingdom government's plans to introduce UK ID Cards and the associated National Identity Register (NIR), which it believes has negative implications for privacy, civil liberties and personal safety.

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OPCS-4

OPCS-4, or more formally OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures version 4, is the procedural classification used by clinical coders within National Health Service (NHS) hospitals of NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland.

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Picture archiving and communication system

A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types).

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Privacy International

Privacy International (PI) is a UK-based registered charity that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world.

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Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom)

The Committee of Public Accounts is a select committee of the British House of Commons.

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Quality and Outcomes Framework

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system for the performance management and payment of general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Ray Ison

Raymond L. (Ray) Ison (born ca. 1952) is an Australian environmental scientist, and Professor of Systems at the Open University in the UK.

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Richard Granger

Richard Granger (born c.1964) is a British management consultant and former UK civil servant was responsible part of the NHS's information technology project, Connecting for Health.

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Ross J. Anderson

Ross John Anderson, FRS, FREng (born 15 September 1956) is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering.

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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom.

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Spine

Spine(s), The Spine, or Spinal may refer to.

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Strategic health authority

Strategic health authorities (SHA) were part of the structure of the National Health Service in England between 2002 and 2013.

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Summary Care Record

A Summary Care Record (SCR) is an electronic patient record, a summary of National Health Service patient data held on a central database covering England, part of the NHS National Programme for IT.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 known colloquially as TUPE and pronounced tu-pee, are the United Kingdom's implementation of the European Union Transfer of Undertakings Directive.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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White elephant

A white elephant is a possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health

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