So, this years Healthcare IT Champion of the Year, the special category of the awards that is chosen by the readers of EHI, was announced as Kemi Adenubi, the GPSoC programme director for the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Adenubi described winning the award as “absolutely fabulous”; “It was wonderful to be nominated, it was great fun to have people say ‘I voted for you’,This will be really good for the project and the team as it shows there’s some recognition for the project we have done together, because it’s an individual nomination, but I have a great team....

As many of you know I used to have a blog here called ‘Sarah Teather is My MP’. But it looks like soon (2015) Sarah is to stand down from Parliament and will no longer be my MP. The former Children’s Minister told the Observer that she feels Nick Clegg’s party no longer campaigns sufficiently for social justice and liberal values on immigration. In a statement on her website, she said that her differences with the party “have been getting larger rather than smaller”....

I’ve been nominated for EHI Healthcare IT Champion 2013. Vote for me and give your support to “playing nicely together”! Its a great honour to be nominated by my peers for an award which seeks to recognise commitment and achievement above and beyond someone’s day job. Sure, I run Tactix4 which provides services and support for opensource solutions to the NHS but I’ve been involved in plenty more these past 24 months which have shaped policy, practice and procurement of technology for healthcare IT in the UK....

From “Berkshire bigboy 2e2 in the pink - apart from crushing debt burden” (29th June 2012) and “Integrator-reseller 2e2 ‘broke banking covenant’, hits credit buffers” (9th Jan 2013) leading to “UK’s 2e2 goes titsup” (29th Jan 2013 ) those following 2e2 will have seen the writing on the wall. 2e2 released a statement to eHealth Insider saying the company had a, “strong underlying business” and remained “highly focussed upon our NHS and health customers which are core to our vision....

This week I went to a supplier engagement event led by people from the Government Digital Services on behalf of the NHS Commissioning Board. Under discussion was the re-platforming of a major component of services provided to patients. Hopefully the re-platforming will be as easy as replacing the engine in an aeroplane mid-flight. And doesn’t end up crashing…. And that the development direction taken is lightweight, agile and cheap!