Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43
Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials You've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee Security05 May 2022 | 44
Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir Move coincides with NHS England's procurement of a far-reaching data platform AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 21
NHS England seeks £240m data platform to tackle COVID recovery Govt org that led controversial Palantir data store seeks overarching system and help to improve services On-Prem14 Apr 2022 | 8
Hospitals to use startup's AI tech to predict A&E traffic Software will figure out number of beds needed – up to three weeks ahead AI + ML29 Mar 2022 | 21
Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended Security23 Mar 2022 | 33
NHS Digital's demise bad for 55 million patients' privacy – ex-chairman IT and data arm now part of NHS England, which could be pressured into data sharing without proper oversight Security04 Mar 2022 | 41
Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful Hiring of ex-Sainsbury's CEO at NHS Test and Trace also against equality law – court Legal15 Feb 2022 | 74
UK pins hopes on 'latest technology' to whittle down massive National Health Service waiting lists £500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing Software09 Feb 2022 | 95
A fifth of England's NHS trusts are mostly paper-based as they grapple with COVID backlog, warn MPs Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout On-Prem07 Jan 2022 | 67
Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs Updated Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid Databases17 Dec 2021 | 8
East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries App runs off a database, and databases are run by humans Security16 Dec 2021 | 105
Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree £37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body Off-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 34
UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure Off-Prem22 Nov 2021 | 55
Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards Off-Prem18 Nov 2021 | 39
Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E Bork!Bork!Bork! Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see... Bootnotes14 Oct 2021 | 19
Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says Databases12 Oct 2021 | 150
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare Databases11 Oct 2021 | 43
UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m for Test and Trace system for another year What happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service? Networks06 Sep 2021 | 11
IBM tossed £20m to keep the Trace side of NHS Test and Trace services running Big Blue continues to reap rewards from pandemic in the UK Networks25 Aug 2021 | 21
UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar' Updated And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July Databases19 Aug 2021 | 31
Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store Updated 18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods Databases18 Aug 2021 | 70
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement Anyone fancy applying? Personal Tech10 Aug 2021 | 59
NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog Databases02 Aug 2021 | 19
Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls Databases29 Jul 2021 | 82
Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit 'Campaign of engagement and communication' might not include letter, but junior minister doesn't rule it out Databases21 Jul 2021 | 39
England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data Databases20 Jul 2021 | 89
How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs After a troubled birth, infamous but effective code becomes an inconvience Software15 Jul 2021 | 92
NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline £200m tender is latest step in never-ending journey toward a paperless utopia Personal Tech13 Jul 2021 | 13
PPE, Part II: UK health department takes second stab at e-commerce system for personal protective equipment Let's hope this time a shortage can be averted Software05 Jul 2021 | 5
NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg Databases05 Jul 2021 | 49
IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands Legal02 Jul 2021 | 42
When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England 'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer Software29 Jun 2021 | 97
Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis Databases25 Jun 2021 | 27
BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves Updated Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union Databases25 Jun 2021 | 21
UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives' As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists Databases22 Jun 2021 | 101
'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary Comment A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default Databases09 Jun 2021 | 86
UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea? Databases08 Jun 2021 | 64
UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing Databases07 Jun 2021 | 41
Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach Software07 Jun 2021 | 50
BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme Databases04 Jun 2021 | 50
NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better We've kind of got a lot going on right now with vaccinating etc... maybe you could do the comms bit, huh? Databases01 Jun 2021 | 16
Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered Legal28 May 2021 | 30
Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not? Databases24 May 2021 | 51
Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged No policy shakeup to deal with snatch of info from primary physicians Security17 May 2021 | 39
'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now Updated 'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal' Software13 May 2021 | 223
AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland Amazon's cloud factory hits £300m under 'One Government' agreement PaaS + IaaS12 May 2021 | 10
NHS App gets go-ahead for vaccine passport use despite protest from privacy groups Big Brother Watch warns app contains too much sensitive medical information Security11 May 2021 | 51
NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website Applications06 May 2021 | 41
Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory' Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad Security28 Apr 2021 | 128
UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over Looks like classic case of failing to scale to meet inevitable demand Off-Prem13 Apr 2021 | 62
NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules Applications13 Apr 2021 | 32
Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic Updated A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye AI + ML30 Mar 2021 | 17
Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts Column Nope, COVID-19 is not a catch-all excuse for backdoor deals AI + ML01 Mar 2021 | 67
Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party AI + ML24 Feb 2021 | 14
UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift Updated Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs SaaS23 Feb 2021 | 27
Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000 Bloke was placed into vulnerable category because of his weight Offbeat19 Feb 2021 | 92
Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms Fail fast, fail often Devops15 Feb 2021 | 24
You'd have told them they should have used Apple/Google app model, right? NHSX seeks willing humans to fill health tech and data roles £93k should help interested parties stomach challenge amid tumultuous change Legal08 Feb 2021 | 16
12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible Ain't nobody got time for that On-Prem25 Jan 2021 | 6
NHS COVID-19 app is trying to tell Android users something but buggy notification appears stuck on 'Loading...' screen The suspense could quite literally be killing us Software13 Jan 2021 | 36
Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit? Vendors slammed for 'lack of proper judgement' during the pandemic Software12 Jan 2021 | 54