National Programme for IT: the £30 billion question

[摘要] The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) for health and social services in England has an anticipated cost of around £30 billion. The world's largest ever IT project aims to provide ‘Better information for health, where and when it's needed’. The core strategy is ‘to take greater central control over the specification, procurement, resource management, performance management and delivery of the information and IT agenda’.1 Its top priorities are listed in Box 1.1 Few would question the programme's high-level intentions. Virtually every general practice in the UK is now computerised. A rapidly increasing proportion of all practice team members, not just GPs, use computers face to face with patients every day. Arguably, UK general practice leads the way in the use of computers to support patient care. Yet, as evidenced by the medical tabloids, this key stakeholder group has become alienated and marginalised.

[学科分类] 卫生学