The NHS and CSC have reached a new agreement seeing an end to the contract to provide patent record systems to 160 NHS trusts.

The new agreement will save the Department of Health £1 billion, while CSC will receive £68 million, for providing record services under the Lorenzo programme to 10 trusts.

The new agreement announced today will allow the NHS to deploy other care service systems in the future, independent of volume.

CSC stated that the agreement offered, “substantial flexibility to NHS trusts in their choice of electronic care records solutions while affording CSC the opportunity to expand and accelerate its marketing of the Lorenzo solution to NHS trusts across England”.