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Health’s Implementation Director Richard Jeavons has announced that NHS
England’s £6-billion-plus computerisation project is under review.
“The National Programme was founded in 2002 when the NHS was a
corporation”, Jeavons told an audience at the HC2006 conference in
Harrogate last month. “Now reform is changing our agenda”.
The NHS is moving from an 80:20 model in which 80% of its agenda is
nationally driven, to one which is 80% locally directed, said Jeavons.
As a result, the service’s information architecture and implementation
approach needs to change to match the new context.
Full story in bjhc&im April 2006 (829 words)
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