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Senior computing scientists from universities in all four countries
of the UK have repeated their call for an independent technical review
of the National Programme for IT. They have also accused NHS Connecting
for Health (CfH) of “retrospectively changing the historical record” by
altering an agreed, published, statement about their meeting on 20
April.
Last April, the group of 23 experts — mostly distinguished professors
— wrote an open letter to the House of Commons Health Committee, warning
that the NPfIT was showing classic symptoms of project failure. (see
bjhc&im, May 2006, p4).
After the April meeting, the expert group wrote to the Health
Committee with proposed terms of reference (which they have put on a
wiki; see
http://editthis.info/nhs_it_info/
Memorandum_for_Health_Committee ).
Full story in bjhc&im November 2006 (591 words)
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