NPfIT IN NHS

The National Programme for IT in NHS



The National Programme for IT in NHS

Critical Evaluation of the National Program for IT in NHS

Overall Approach

The NPfIT provided for the construction of four key projects: a system of information across national, single, centralized, ensuring patients, hospital doctors and GPs, secure access to confidential data, an intake system appointment online at clinics and hospitals called Choose and Book, a transfer system online orders (Electronic Prescription Service) management system online medical records of patients (Summary Care Records System) (Gorsky, Martin, 2008, p 437-460).

The Department of Health is going to abandon the project of a system of information for the single, centralized National Health System. This project was part of the National Strategic Program for IT in the NHS initiated in 2002 following the publication by the DH report "Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS". According to the Conservative Secretary of State for Health Simon Burns, the abandonment of centralized infrastructure project should enable the NPfIT in savings of approximately £ 700 million. Combined with other fiscal measures taken by the Labour Party in December 2009, the total budget for NPfIT expected to rise from £ 12.7 million to £ 11.4 million. One of the reasons for this based on the fact that NPfIT have been functioning inefficiently (Gorsky, Martin, 2008, p 437-460).

Organization Structure and Program Structure Roles and Responsibilities

NPfIT officially presented at its launch as the largest program ever made civil IT, not deleted. The radical changes made to the implementation strategy still sound like a failure for a program which, over the years has accumulated delays and criticism. In addition to the end of centralized infrastructure project, the Summary Care Records System, the most controversial element of NPfIT, was also a time subject to abandonment. The Ministry of Health has finally announced October 13, 2010 that the project would be completed and then deployed throughout the country. Applications already in place across national, the Electronic Prescription Service, Choose and Book and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System, Communication System and Image Management) are no longer part of the NPfIT as projects. They are now directly managed by the NHS (Stewart, John, 2008, p 453-470).

This program aims at the promotion of productive research in the areas of Electronics, Information and Communications within the health sector. This involves the mutual transfer of technology and knowledge. The scientific and technical objectives of the program selected to improve the competitiveness of the services in the health sector, after studying the most appropriate and feasible (Valier, Helen, 2005, p 167-192). The goals are two groups:

Technologies.

Systems and Architectures (Valier, Helen, 2005, p 167-192).

The first group includes physical technologies (components and subsystems) in the fields of radio, electronics, optoelectronics and microelectronics. It also includes intermediate character Technology (Communications and Information Processing) that have both physical and logical aspects. The Systems and Architectures group includes logical character issues that rely on the technologies mentioned above. It consists of the Systems, Computer Architecture, architectures for signal processing and ...