The future of the NHS’s £12.7bn computer programme was in doubt last night after its managers acknowledged further delays in introducing a system for the electronic storage and transmission of patients’ records. Connecting for Health, the NHS agency responsible for the world’s biggest civil IT project, said it was no longer possible to give a date when hospitals in England will start using the sophisticated software that is required to keep track of patients’ medical files.
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