Warning of Â£25bn NHS IT overspend
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The final cost of modernising NHS computer systems could rise to between Â£18.6bn and Â£31bn - three to five times the declared figure - it is reported.
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Government claims to have made Â£13bn in efficiency savings carry a "risk of inaccuracy", a report says.
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Thousands of people could be paying for health care when the NHS should be footing the bill, it is thought.
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Says it'd 'cost too much' The government is obstructing a bill aimed at establishing a new website for information on public sector spending.â¦
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The British National Health Service (NHS) has signed a massive software licensing deal with Microsoft. The deal will ultimately save the NHS $625 million in licensing fees, as well as requiring that Microsoft
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LONDON -- The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) has tapped IT researcher Gartner Inc. to provide market intelligence services as the health organization forges ahead with a mammoth, Â£5 billion ($9.2 billion) project to upgrade its information technology infrastructure.
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The University of Washington said yesterday it overbilled the government $3.6 million during the period that was the subject of the federal investigation into its Medicare and Medicaid billing practices, an amount in sharp contrast to government estimates
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Smoke and mirrors UK government claims of multi-billion pound savings achieved through an efficiency drive has come under fire from the National Audit Office.â¦
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Business & money: Â· We warned of trouble months ago, say chiefsÂ·  Loan to ailing lender reaches nearly Â£8bn
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Business & money: Overspend on Â£17bn programme to upgrade network could be more than double previous estimate.
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Fresh concerns are raised over the Â£6.8bn upgrade after it emerged there were 110 glitches in the last four months.
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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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Scotland's schools and colleges spent more than Â£250,000 on compensation to teachers last year.
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An OFT inquiry finds the NHS pays hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded medicines, the BBC learns.
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Phew! What a stink The British government has admitted to Parliament that its IT projects have over-run by more than Â£260m in the last five years.â¦
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The NHS now spends too much on cataract surgery, eye doctors claim.
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BMJ study suggests anti-cholesterol drugs are massively and needlessly over-prescribed, inflating the Â£2bn annual bill to the NHS.