The end of NPfIT
A collective sigh of relief was heard from IT execs in the health sector last week when the National Audit Office came to the conclusion that the much-maligned National Programme for IT (NPfIT) would not deliver value for money or its original clinical aims. The Department of Health issued a hasty response, conceding that the original concept was indeed “flawed”. No one culprit is to blame, but the question remains, what are the respective trust’s own IT decision-makers doing and where do they fit into the NPfIT? We decided to speak to some of these IT execs to see what the NPfIT had given them and what direction
they were planning to take as the programme flatlines?
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