A £12.7bn upgrade of IT systems throughout the NHS in England will not be completed for at least another six years, four years behind schedule, parliament's spending watchdog disclosed today. Revealing that the scale of the delay to the system was worse than previously thought, the National Audit Office said plans for a national electronic record of the medical files of 50 million patients might not come to fruition until 2014-15.
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NHS IT 'at least four years late' - BBC Health News 15th May 2008
Four-year delay for NHS's new IT system - The Guardian 16th May 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
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