“The Department of Health should allow individual trusts to apply for alternative funding for IT systems if the central £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is still failing to deliver in six months’ time, according to MPs.
While some parts of the scheme have been implemented successfully, key elements such as the care records system have stalled, and are not expected to be delivered until 2014 – four years late.”
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Tom Young, Computing, 27 January 2008
