| England’s National
Programme for IT has absolutely no prospect of integrating healthcare
and socialcare records by its original target date of 2010, according to
community care specialists at the HC2006 conference in March. Despite
being set out as one of the goals of the NPfIT in 2002, the concept has
been steadily neglected. The result is that little progress has been
made, according to Ian Herbert, a respected data modeller, formerly with
the NHS Information Authority and now a primary care consultant.
“Putting healthcare and socialcare records together by 2010 is simply
fairyland”, Herbert told delegates. “We just don’t know how to do it”.
Full story in bjhc&im May 2006 (350 words)
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