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The government has raided a £240m NHS technology fund to bolster financial support for hospitals struggling with accident and emergency demand this winter, senior sources have told LGC’s sister title Health Service Journal.
Senior health service figures said a large amount of the money originally earmarked to help pay for projects such as digital patient records had now been diverted into the £700m winter pressures fund.
One senior NHS IT director told HSJ: “We are being told that at least half of the money is going to be cut and that there is probably going to be nothing by way of an announcement until after the election about which trusts have been successful.”
http://www.lgcplus.com/news/health/...e=Latest-Local-Government-News&contentID=2249
Senior health service figures said a large amount of the money originally earmarked to help pay for projects such as digital patient records had now been diverted into the £700m winter pressures fund.
One senior NHS IT director told HSJ: “We are being told that at least half of the money is going to be cut and that there is probably going to be nothing by way of an announcement until after the election about which trusts have been successful.”
http://www.lgcplus.com/news/health/...e=Latest-Local-Government-News&contentID=2249