The rise and fall of England's National Programme for IT

During nine turbulent years, the most enduring features observed in the landscape of the National Programme for IT have been continual change and uncertainties. The Government’s new announce-ment of the disbanding of the National Pro-gramme’s Board clarifies its plans to accelerate the Programme’s end, but leaves the landscape of NHS IT in England strewn with uncertainties. The promised statement on a new structure to support NHS IT is still awaited. In the meantime, the Government’s Major Project Authority’s review of the Programme,1 published in redacted form this September, echoes some content of earlier reviews by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee and National Audit