UK DoH ends Microsoft licensing contract
The Department of Health is ending the £500m deal between Microsoft and the health service in England. A Department of Health (DoH) spokesperson confirmed that it will not renew its contract with the software firm for 900,000 licences for Microsoft's PC software, which was due for renewal this year.
"The Department of Health has already invested so that NHS trusts are able to have access to the latest versions of Microsoft desktop software," the spokesperson told SmartHealthcare.com on Thursday.
"Future investment decisions will be taken at a local level, in line with the proposals set out in the white paper published this week." The Liberating the NHS white paper promises that NHS organisations will increasingly be enabled to be "customers of a more plural system of IT and other suppliers".
