“A plan to create the world’s largest single civilian computer system linking all parts of the National Health Service is to be abandoned by the Government after running up billions of pounds in bills. Ministers are expected to announce next month that they are scrapping a central part of the much-delayed and hugely controversial 10-year National Programme for IT. The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that, while the intention of creating a centralised database of electronic patient records was a ‘worthwhile aim’, a huge amount of money had been wasted.”
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