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These pages constitute a dossier of information relating to concerns over the current progress and direction of NHS Connecting for Health's National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). This dossier has been compiled over recent months by the set of signatories to open letters calling for an independent inquiry into and detailed technical review of NPfIT, as we continued to learn about the Programme, and is now made available here to a general readership. 

Some noteworthy recent additions

Health Select Committee Inquiry

Supplier sets out risks facing NHS IT plan

Summary: Private Eye Special Report on the NHS IT Programme

Public Accounts Committee: Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS

Our Supplementary Evidence to the EPR Inquiry on Independent Reviews

Bad Health Informatics Can Kill

Secret papers reveal Blair's rushed NPfIT plans

Summary Care Record Early Adopter Programme: An independent evaluation by University College London

Newcastle NHS trust quits the NPfIT ship

NHS records project grinds to halt

Printable (3.9MB PDF file) 425-page report based on the contents of this on-line dossier, as of 10 Nov 2008.
(Here for the record is the 212-page 3.5MB PDF version, printed copies of which were distributed to a large
number of MPs and officials on 18 Jan 2007.)

Contents

Health Select Committee

The Open Letter to the Health Select Committee

This letter, signed by twenty-three academics, was sent on 10 April 2006. One of the immediate consequences was that we all received invitations from the Director-General of NPfIT, to discuss the concerns expressed. In addition the House Select Committee requested from us, and were provided with, a memorandum containing a more detailed proposal and with suggestions for the terms of reference for an independent technical assessment of NPfIT, together with an initial version of a Bibliography of Published Concerns.

Agreed Statement

This agreed statement was issued, and placed on the NHS Connecting for Health web-site, following the meeting at NHS attended by representatives of the signatories on 20 April 2006.

    Initial Incorrect Version of the Agreed statement

    This was placed on the Connecting for Health web-site shortly after meeting, but replaced by a corrected version once we had pointed out the small but significant error.

    Current Replacement Text on the CfH Web-Site

    The text (in place of the agreed text) provided on the CfH web-site as of 12 Oct 2006 - it is not known when the original agreed statement - which made it clear that both sides accepted that a "constructive and pragmatic independent review of the programme could be valuable" - was replaced by this text.

Media Commentary on the Open Letter and the Agreed Statement

(Quotations from, and links to the full text of, 7 articles.)

====Memorandum for Health Committee==== (Sent on request 14 May 2006)

====Technical Review ToR==== (Attachment to the memorandum sent on 14 May 2006)

Second Open Letter to the Health Select Committee

(This further letter, by the same signatories, was sent to the Health Select Committee on October 6, 2006.)

Media Commentary on the Second Open Letter

(Quotations from, and links to the full text of, 7 articles.)

Media Commentary on our NHS IT Info Dossier

(Quotations from, and links to the full text of, 7 articles.)

Health Select Committee Inquiry

(Documents and media commentary following the Health Select Committee's reversal of their earlier decisions, and announcement that they would hold an inquiry into NPfIT.)

Unpublished Concerns Regarding NPfIT

This section of the dossier contains previously-unpublished informative and constructive contributions that we have received from people who have extensive direct knowledge of NPfIT and the challenges of developing large IT systems.

Bibliography of Published Concerns Regarding NPfIT

This ever-growing set of quotations (now greatly expanded from the original version provided to the Health Select Committee in May 2006) gives just one side of the case, so to speak - no doubt a number of alternative quotations relating to NPfIT could be selected that would paint a somewhat rosier picture - this however is a task for CfH.

National Audit Office

(Reports and commentary)

Public Accounts Committee

(Hearings, submissions and commentary)

Parliament

(Official records, reports, etc.)

Individual Members of Parliament

Written parliamentary questions (since Jan 2004), and papers, speeches, etc., relating to concerns about NPfIT, by current MPs. (The answers to the written questions can be found via the links provided.)

Individual Members of the House of Lords

Written parliamentary questions (since Jan 2004), and papers, speeches, etc., relating to concerns about NPfIT. (The answers to the written questions can be found via the links provided.)

Department of Health

(Documents and commentary.)

British Computer Society

(On the BCS's statements about NPfIT; the actual statements are referenced in appropriate sections of the Bibliography of Published Concerns, above.)

NPfIT Specifications and Policies

(Reports and commentary.)

Refereed Studies

(Quotations from, and links to the full text of, papers providing detailed field studies of deployed healthcare systems, in particular NHS EPR systems.)

Other Documents

(Quotations from, and links to the full text of, other relevant documents.)

Other Websites

(Relevant websites and other online resources.)

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