The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7502 p584
17 May 2008

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NAO progress report on NPfIT

All elements of the National Programme for IT are advancing and some are complete but the original timescales for the electronic Care Records Service were unachievable from the beginning, raised unrealistic expectations and put confidence in the programme at risk, says the National Audit Office in its second report on the programme.

The NAO concludes that the original vision remains intact and still appears feasible but that it is likely to take until 2014–15 before every NHS trust in England has fully deployed the care records system, four years later than planned.

The report is available via the NAO website at www.nao.org.uk