Very successful?
Surely you jest. Here's what the National Audit Office had to say

"The original vision for the National Programme for IT in the NHS will not be realised. The NHS is now getting far fewer systems than planned despite the Department paying contractors almost the same amount of money. This is yet another example of a department fundamentally underestimating the scale and complexity of a major IT-enabled change programme.

"The Department of Health needs to admit that it is now in damage-limitation mode. I hope that my report today, together with the forthcoming review by the Cabinet Office and Treasury, announced by the Prime Minister, will help to prevent further loss of public value from future expenditure on the Programme."

Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 18 May 2011

Read it and weep: www.nao.org.uk/publications/1012/npfit.aspx
(ubergeekian, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 13:36, 1 reply)

The N3 network is quite nice,
now that it doesn't undergo a spectacular collapse every 2 days.
NPfIT was a disaster - anything good that has happened has been inspite of it, not because of it. Still, it did give plenty of people some cushy jobs for a few years, and that's good for the economy, right?
It did have noble intentions, and a unified PAS system across all departments of all hospitals would have been a wonderful thing. Could have worked, too.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 13:43, closed)