As expected the new government are introducing reform to the NHS, much of which is underpinned by local decision making – not exactly what a national programme set out to deliver. It would ...

With a damning National Audit Office report and angry parliamentary hearings into the performance of the NHS National Programme for IT, with contractors CSC and BT, it has become clear that the ...

The government's decision to accelerate the dismantling of the NHS National Project for IT (NPfIT ... for the NHS's badly needed modernisation programme? Few details have yet been released ...

The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), set up under the government of Tony Blair, has caused a technology recruitment nightmare for CIOs in the health sector says James Thomas, CIO at one of ...

At a private conference for health service professionals last month he spoke with remarkable frankness about the government's multibillion-pound modernisation of the NHS, the national programme ...

Hayes said this problems has been heightened by the "top-down nature" of the NHS National Programme for IT as well as the "the patchy reflection of NHS requirements in the procurements in 2002 ...

The government faces embarrassment after a leaked document claimed hospitals would be "better off" without a national IT upgrade. The Observer yesterday reported it had seen an official NHS ...

The NHS National Programme for IT delivered £208m of savings by April 2007 – despite major delays to parts of the controversial project. Tough "payment on delivery" contracts mean that the cost ...

The NHS National Programme for IT is the largest non-military project in the world and aims to revolutionise healthcare. But the budget for the massive project was never properly explained and it was ...

Recent progress in deploying the Care Records Service under the National Programme for IT in the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been “very disappointing,” and is now at least for years ...

The NHS could not function without the national IT programme, according to the government The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is now so well advanced that the health service “could no ...