NHS IT system slammed
News Article - Monday, June 19, 2006 13:11
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The new NHS IT system has been criticised today in a report by the National Audit Office.
The report entitled National Programme for IT in the NHS stated that the implementation of the system, which has cost billions of pounds, has been "slower than expected".
The IT system is to take ten years to be fully integrated but the report claims it is already two years behind schedule.
The report also said that staff were not fully consulted and communicated with about the new IT which has led to problems.
"Wider engagement and mobilisation of the NHS was not started until NHS Connecting for Health judged that procurement had reached a sufficient stage of maturity to be able to communicate its outcome in a meaningful and efficient way," said the report.
This communication was too late coming and staff should have been involved from the beginning, the report added.
The system once fully installed will have several useful features such as online patient records, a service for doctors to book hospital appointments for their patients online and electronic prescription ordering.
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