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CSC say they want to take over from Accenture
08 Sep 2006
CSC today confirmed they would compete to take over from Accenture, should the company withdraw from its contracts to the North-east and Eastern cluster of the National Programme for IT.
Speaking at a conference in New York, CSC’s chief financial officer, Mike Keane, said: “If the cluster becomes vacant, that would be potential business. We have a very comfortable relationship with the NHS and we believe that this would be business we would like to compete for.”
CSC was awarded the LSP contract, worth £973 million for the North-west and West Midlands region of the NHS in England in December 2003. CSC has implemented iSoft software at approximately 12 acute trusts and 50 community and mental health trusts.
Keane said: “We have been performing well. We are all dependent on sub-contractors in terms of software providing. iSoft is our vendor, and we are helping them to develop the next-generation product on time.”
CSC’s CFO added that he believed his company had mitigated the risk from iSoft by agreeing a deal with the company to help speed up the development of the software. CSC takes charge of seven 'out of cluster' trusts.
“We are going to overlay some of the discipline. We are in a system development and we will overlay the system at iSoft to help them meet that milestone.
“We have the ability to step in and put our people into the process, to take over the project if this milestone does not look like it will be reached.”
© 2006 E-HEALTH-MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
N3 on target for March 2007 completion
14 Sep 2006
Almost 15,500 connections have been made to the national network, N3, and work is on schedule to be completed in March next year, according to NHS Connecting for Health (CfH).
The agency says 97% of GP surgeries have now been connected to the network by N3 contractors BT, potentially benefiting around 48 million patients with faster connections for sharing health information securely.
Patrick O’Connell, BT Health managing director, commented: "This is a tremendous achievement for BT and the network providers we have contracted with. We have gained momentum and we are on schedule to hit the end goal of 18,000 connections in England by March 2007."
CfH said: “The number of connections has increased rapidly since the Weston Coyney Medical Centre in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, became the 15,000th NHS site in England to be connected to N3 recently.
“For example, patients can receive the convenience of local specialist advice and treatment instead of the inconvenience of travelling a distance to specialist centres. The highest quality images and video examinations can be sent to specialists who conduct the diagnosis remotely.”
CfH says N3 is more secure and efficient than its predecessor, NHSnet, and also less expensive to run. It claims savings for the NHS on networking costs of an estimated £900m over seven years, relative to previous and remaining NHSnet contracts.
BT was awarded the £530m contract for N3 in February 2004 along with the local service provider contract for London and the contract to build the central database known as the "Spine".
Chief executive of BT’s global services division, Andy Green says the company is making strong progress with all three contracts and expects to make a profit on the contracts over their lifespan.
Figures released in response to a parliamentary question earlier this year showed that BT earned just £1.3m on the London contract where delivery, to acute trusts particularly, has been slow. Green said, however, that BT had received “hundreds of millions of pounds” in contractual payments overall.
He said: "N3 is an area where we have made some of the strongest progress. We have quietly created Europe’s largest virtual private network that will connect every NHS site in England, enabling information to travel at great speeds between those sites. We are also rolling out a similar network in Scotland.
"The increasing sophistication of NHS services and procedures means that this high-capacity has never been more essential. Today, it is already benefiting clinicians and patients alike by enabling clinical information to be shared quickly and securely.
© 2006 E-HEALTH-MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Good morning to all.
I'm filling myself with some milk.
Jonathan, may be I'm asking for too much, but just one unexpected good news and !!!!!!!!!!!!
No, I'm not in it. News look very nice so, if only RSHN would have such news, but didn't have any for awhile. Still just got some Sharks tickets. Good luck!
Does anyone know what ever happened to E-lerning? It was so promising.
Good morning. Do MMs have to do something about bid and ask or they can sit and wait?
Dwudman, I'll be waiting for next week for both. Thanks.
GREEN!
Will be over 20c in no time. IMHO
2000shx13c=$260 - she could keep fixing it for all night!
300shx.155c=$46.50 - I'm not sure about a fixed tooth, but Jenny around the corner "could fix something" for this price.
Thank you Lem. I'm working now on bringing it over 20c. Still far away from MY $1.55 and $1.54 purchases, but JB is working on it, looks like.
Thank you!!! Please play Sinatra's "My way".
Like I said yesterday (see my post # 8688). Good morning to all.
Doc, after "building a solid base" it can become a solid gold reaching $10 within 3 years.IMHO
OT: Doc, do you still have GLIF? Quite an action today. I sold mine before.
Thank you all for kind words. Lem, you are THE MEN! My BD is on July 16, so what?! Will continue working for tomorrow's higher PPS!
SolidGOLD.
OTC stock alert is looking VERY NICE! Sorry, can't post.
It is also my Birthday!
Tjak, let me take some credit for today's PR, see my post #8528 from Friday. LOL
I wouldn't bet on it.
There are some great deals available rigth now. As long as we keep moving up everything is possible.
In any case with positive developments we should be closer to 50c by now. This is my 1000 post at this board and it is exactly 1 year for me posting on this board. Thank you all for the company and good luck!
If they are still planning for Asian dividend by the the year end, than something should bring PPS to around $1 for Europian dividend by that time. What do you think?
Maybe Medify is buying some back..
We would have to wait till end of March 2007 for the 4th Quarter Report (year end report).
Yes, God Bless America! We should fight terrorism W/O ANY PITY!
Thank you.
When is the end?
At least I'll correct my mistake.
And everyone have a delighted weekend!
Lem, how about "Hotel California" of my most favorite Eagles?
Thanks.
And TB, bless his soul, used to complain about my grammar.
May be they should hire me, at lease they would have an excuse.
Yep, JB now stands for Johny Blackberry.
I'm ready ... ready for more than year now.
I'm working on it.
Can somebody post info about Vegas exibit? Thank you.
Vikings used to be my 1st NFL love, but only for one season.
And ones again: GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR SOLDIERS!!!
Thanks for mine 31st NFL season! Thanks for everything!