England's National Health Service is effectively ending the National Programme for IT, moving away from a centralized, national strategy for deploying IT to hospitals and clinics across the country ...

National management was also vital for handling the contracts on the disastrous National Programme for IT. Some of the contracts will still run until nearly 2017, he said. The news comes as the ...

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 National Programme for IT aims to provide an individual electronic NHS care record for England’s 50m+ patients; an electronic appointment booking and prescription service; and a national ...

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 (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 ...

The private concerns of clinicians and IT professionals about the national programme are not being addressed, despite the front presented by the project's leaders. Christopher Bland seemed ...