Massive NHS Computer Network Overspend Raises Fears
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The computer network being installed by the NHS could cost over Â£30 billion - five times the amount originally announced by the Government, it emerged today.
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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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Some 40,000 computers in the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions were cut off from their network last month when an IT technician erroneously installed a software upgrade, according to EDS.
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The Office of Fair Trading says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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A quarter run 50% over budget Budget overruns on IT projects are costing Irish and UK businesses more than â¬375m a year, new research has revealed.â¦
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Â£2.6bn budget blowout Skynet 5 and other military equipment projects are running a total of Â£2.6bn over budget, a report from the official spending watchdog reveals.â¦
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The OFT says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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The number of UK homes with internet access has gone up by nearly a million over the last year, figures suggest.
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The NHS will be at risk unless more is done to combat obesity and increase productivity, a landmark report says.
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The NHS looks like it has underspent by nearly Â£500m last year after making cuts amid pressure to avoid a deficit, early data shows.
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A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department&#39;s computers offline for five working days.
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The NHS in England is to spend Â£172m on management consultants this year, the Tories have claimed.
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The NHS has been hit by a Â£180m compensation bill for incorrectly charging patients for nursing care.
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At least Â£100m from is being spent unnecessarily by the NHS each year on indigestion drugs, doctors say.
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The NHS is still spending too much on costly stand-in nursing staff to cover absences, say MPs.
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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Wonder why they ever called them NHS Trusts... A laptop containing medical records for more than 5,000 people has been lost by a hospital near Dudley.â¦