HSCIC completes migration to NHS Spine 2 backbone
New NHS Spine is 'the biggest public-sector IT system to be built entirely on open source software', claims HSCIC
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has completed the final phase of its move from the Spine backbone, which was created as part of the ill-fated National Programme for IT (NPfIT), to...
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