Farewell then NPfIT across the health service. But without learning longer-term lessons, will locally-orientated IT development in the NHS just be going back to the future?

Fishenden, Jerry (2010) Farewell then NPfIT across the health service. But without learning longer-term lessons, will locally-orientated IT development in the NHS just be going back to the future? British Politics and Policy at LSE (22 Sep 2010) Blog Entry.

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Long a focus of controversy, the NHS’s flagship programme for renewing its information technology has been radically scaled down and ‘re-focused’ by the new coalition government. Jerry Fishenden welcomes the change, but worries that letting diversity bloom again without learning the lessons of both NPfIT and its predecessor policies will not break the mould of past failures.

Item Type:	Website (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2010 The Author
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Sets:	Departments > Management Collections > British Politics and Policy at LSE
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Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2011 15:21
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39719/

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