| England’s Director
General of NHS IT Richard Granger has accepted a call by 23 of the UK’s
leading academic computer scientists for a root-and-branch technical
review of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
Early last month the group sent an open letter setting out their
concerns about the £6.2bn Programme’s viability to the House of Commons
Health Select Committee.
Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge
University and one of the letter’s signatories, told bjhc&im it
was “the one outcome we didn’t really expect. We seem to have convinced
him that a mid-term review would be useful if things are going as well
as they say.”
Full story in bjhc&im May 2006 (540 words)
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