Accenture quits Â£1.9bn NHS deal
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IT firm Accenture pulls out of key parts of a beleaguered Â£6.2bn upgrade of the NHS computer system.
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The National Health Service (NHS) has extended a software licensing deal with Microsoft for nine years - three times longer than its current agreement.
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A &quot;landmark agreement&quot; with Microsoft to renew the NHS&#39; license for desktop software would save an estimated $608 million.
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A university which opposed top-up fees will charge the full rate - but offer bursaries of Â£1,000 a year.
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A consortium led by British insurer Prudential PLC has dropped its bid for a major South Korean state asset managing company.
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Manor Care, the nursing home operator and long-term health care provider, said that it had agreed to be acquired by the Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion.
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Building supplies-to-cheque printing group Novar today agreed to be taken over by US giant Honeywell for Â£798 million. The deal sent shares in Novar up more than 14% and is
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Kidde, the UK fire and safety products company, said yesterday it had accepted a cash offer from United Technology Corporation that values the group at Â£1.442bn.
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Dutch bank ING, which paid Â£1 for Baring, the British investment bank brought to the brink by Nick Leeson, is to sell its remaining Baring division.
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Insurer Resolution drops its support for a Â£4.9bn offer from Standard Life after rival Pearl buys a quarter of its shares.
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A shake-up of strategic health authorities has seen the NHS pay out more than Â£80m in redundancy, the BBC learns.
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Business & money: Â· Buyout firms blamed for collapse of schemesÂ· Labour donor linked to Â£81m of deficits
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Its 'been delivering' Accenture, the IT and consultancy firm has avoided huge penalty fees for withdrawing from the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT).â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Accenture and SAP will co-develop software using SAP's NetWeaver integration platform to streamline the sharing of data among healthcare organizations and applications in a SOA (services-oriented architecture), they said Wednesday. The software, Collaborative Health Network (CHN) is intended to provide the infrastructure to link health-care applications together, said Ken Lacey, global managing partner of Accenture's Health & Life Sciences practice. The companies are still designing the software, but functions they hope to incorporate in the first release, due in mid-2007, include a master patient index, an index of health-care providers, electronic prescribing and links to pharmacists, Lacey said. Connections among health-care providers and the organizations that pay them, such as insurance companies or government agencies, will appear in a later version of the software, he said. The software, which Accenture is presenting as an optional part of its Electronic Health Record Connection Platform, could find widespread use. A number of countries plan to computerize health-care records and link systems together regionally or nationally, while others have already begun work on such projects. Accenture will initially approach health-care providers in Austria, Chile, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands with the CHN infrastructure software project, Lacey said. In other large markets, though, CHN will struggle to find a place. France is "already fairly far down the path to establishing requirements," Lacey said, making it difficult for Accenture to pitch a new approach such as CHN. The U.K. has already begun work on its system, which aims to link 50 million patients with health-care workers including doctors. Accenture has already the job of deploying part of the U.K.'s system, but in March reported that it expected to make a loss on the work as a result of delays in obtaining key clinical record software from supplier iSoft Group. Accenture will offer its services as systems integrator for the product, with SAP as software supplier, Lacey said. The companies will develop the software near SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Accenture representatives could not say how many staff will work on the project.
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US private equity firm Blackstone has had its Â£564m offer for listed UK nursing homes group NHP accepted. The successful completion of the deal would mark a big step forward in its ambition to build one of the UK&#39;s large homes providers.
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Northern Ireland's biggest electricity supplier, Viridian, accepts a Â£1.6bn takeover bid from a Bahrain-based firm.
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Private equity firm Carlyle Group   has closed its $4.9 billion acquisition of U.S.  nursing home operator Manor Care Inc , Manor Care said  on Friday, after a temporary order against the deal was lifted  in Michigan.