| In mid July, NHS
Connecting for Health (CfH) published its second opinion poll on the
National Programme for IT (NPfIT), carried out on its behalf by Ipsos
MORI in January and February. It shows that the opinions of IM&T
managers, NHS general managers, administrators and, in some instances,
doctors have become less favourable towards the Programme since the
first MORI poll in summer 2005. The cost of the Programme and the paucity of skills needed to make it
work are emerging as identifiable reasons for their scepticism that the
Programme is likely to work successfully.
Full story in bjhc&im September 2006 (525 words)
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