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The article reports that Novell Inc. has recently announced that it would be providing security and systems management software for Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) through the National Programme for Information Technology. The new licensing agreement allows NHS-wide use of Novell Identity Manager for security and access control, and Novell ZENworks for desktop management. The company has specifically included Open Enterprise Server so that the large number of NetWare users in the NHS can transfer their existing deployments to a Linux Platform.

The article reports on the defects on the modernization of the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. 80 NHS trusts in the North West and West Midlands area of England have been without their information technology systems for a while due to storage area network failure of the data center in Kent and the inaccessibility of the back-up systems. As a result, several NHS staff will have to enter the backlog of information that is accumulating up on paper.

The government's health reform programme since 2000 has covered many aspects of the organisation of health care and was accompanied by a sizeable increase in spending on healthcare. Many of these reforms have the potential to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the health care system and ultimately health outcomes. This chapter provides an overview of the organisation and financing of the National Health Service, reviews its performance, assesses the reforms since the start of the decade and provides recommendations for further development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article briefly reports various news items related to the field of information technology and computer industry. It is reported that Postini Inc., which has just recorded its first profitable quarter on a rapidly expanding customer base, has gone live with version 5.0 of its Perimeter Manager managed email security service. The British National Health Service has lined up six new enterprise-wide supplier arrangements through its National Programme for Information Technology in a move that it estimates will save it about 30 million pounds. In July 2003, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a competitive replacement program targeting Tru64 Unix customers running on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s AlphaServer line. In March 2004, after converting some 80 customers from AlphaServers to Sparc/Solaris boxes, Sun decided to start chasing the HP 9000 installed base with this "HP Away" competitive replacement program.

Focuses on reforms on health care public expenditure in Great Britain in the 1990s. Basis of regional budgets for hospitals and community care services; Improvements brought about by the advent of the quasi-market; Impact of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme; Key elements of the revamped National Health Service.

The article examines the impact of the conditions imposed by the contracts of Connecting for Health, a program for modernizing information technology in Great Britain National Health Service (NHS), on Accenture Inc. and iSoft PLC. Regional local service provider Accenture announced that it would lose between GBP63 and GBP86 million on its NHS contracts. The announcement was followed by iSoft in January 2006 when it stated its revenues from the NHS for the year would be GBP55 million lower than expected, at GPB30 million.

The article examines British government information technology contracts of Accenture Inc., and iSoft PLC. According to Accenture, a regional local service provider, it would lose between £63 million and £86 million on its National Health Service (NHS) contracts. On the other hand, iSoft, a sub-contractor for local service providers in the provision of hospital systems, claim that its revenues from the NHS for 2005 would be lower than predicted.

The article focuses on the introduction of information technology (IT) in the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain. The best project managers in the public sector have been hired for this huge IT project. 80 NHS trusts were affected by the collapse of the data center in Kent, England that supported their IT systems. That data center is operated by one of the 5 local service providers for the NHS Programme for IT CSC Alliance.