According to ComputerWeekly, doctor support for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has dropped sharply over the past three years. Only 23% of general practitioners and 35% of other medical specialists surveyed now support the aims of the NPfIT, while in in 2004 it was 56% and 75% respectively. Less than 50% of the doctors surveyed believe that the NPfIT is an important NHS priority, while in 2003 some 80% did so.
The NHS said the survey results did not match up with its own surveys, and that the NPfIT is working just fine, thank you very much.
Of course, the NHS also said it would never have to alter the supplier contracts for the NPfIT implementation, but last week the NHS admitted it was in fact altering them, but it really wasn't a contract renegotiation. The NHS suppliers apparently didn't get the word, however, because they refused to discuss what it was all about, citing “ongoing commercial negotiations."
Comments (2)
While I am very interested in health and medical related articles, I am not close enough to the work to recognize some of the abbreviations you use: Is NHW National Health Service, and if so, which nation? And what is the National IT program for whom, which support is dropping? This was a very vague article unless you already are deep in the subject.
Posted by M Otten | December 4, 2007 5:48 AM
Posted on December 4, 2007 05:48
NHS is the national program of the UK. One of the likely reasons for the lower scores would be the fact that as usual the benefits were over-stated, and under-delivered. Also one of the suppliers was taken off the contract last year.
Posted by Ravinder | December 10, 2007 6:50 AM
Posted on December 10, 2007 06:50