In my previous life I had a good deal of input into the beginnings of the new NHS IT project (NPFIT). The main reason it has run into so many problems is that from the outset different regions worked with different IT providers and implimentation teams. These teams (in my experience) were run by university graduate 'systems developers' who neither knew, or wanted to learn about, the NHS and what was really required of a system to work efficiently. Because of this lack of understanding they then were unable to control the very strong willed opinions of the various consultants and managers who all fought their own corner to get a system they percieved as being 'right' for them.
Before I left we had gone through 3 different providers/implimentation teams and each started from scratch and NONE learnt anything from the mistakes of the last...
So I am very uneasy at any central data control provided from this abortion of a project!
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