The National Audit Office (NAO) has published its second report on the National Programme for IT, called 'The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006', on Friday 16 May 2008.

A record 26,000 bookings were made via Choose and Book on the first day after the successful implementation of Choose and Book Release 4.0, over the weekend of 3 and 4 May 2008, an upgrade to support Free Choice for patients.

NHS Connecting for Health has rescheduled the launch of Release 4.0 of the Choose and Book electronic booking system, which had been due to go live on 12/13 April 2008. The Release will now be introduced over the weekend of 3/4 May 2008.

The NHS Connecting for Health N3 team is celebrating after winning a prestigious 2008 Government Computing Award for Innovation.

NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) has procured 7,500 infection resistant keyboards for use in hospitals across England, in a move designed to help improve patient safety by preventing the spread of hospital infections.

NHS Connecting for Health is to host a conference looking at the importance to patient care of using the standard clinical terminology - 'SNOMED Clinical Terms' (SNOMED CT) - as part of an overall technical solution to support the delivery of health care.

New joint guidance is now available from the British Medical Association (BMA) and NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) to advise health care staff on how to protect electronic patient information.

NHS Connecting for Health has postponed the launch of Release 4.0 of its Choose and Book electronic booking system, which was due to go live on April 12.

NHS Connecting for Health has postponed the launch of Release 4.0 of its Choose and Book electronic booking system, which was due to go live on April 12.

NHSmail, the secure email and directory service for NHS staff in England and Scotland, has been endorsed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).

NHS Connecting for Health can announce that GP2GP has completed over 100,000 electronic health record (EHR) transfers.

NHS Connecting for Health has recently completed the national procurement of an encryption solution for removable media and full disk encryption on behalf of the NHS.

The deadline for submitting the Information Governance Statement of Compliance (IGSoC) is fast approaching.

NHS Connecting for Health has announced the appointment of eight new National Clinical Leads (NCLs), who will build on the current work being done to involve their colleagues in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

Choose and Book has had its first TV appearance, with a small cameo role in the popular BBC One East End soap opera EastEnders, on Tuesday 11 March.

The new IT systems in the NHS are on course to deliver better care and an estimated £1.14 billion in savings by 2014, according to the first annual Benefits Statement published by the Government.