SPOTLIGHT: Bureaucratic infighting in UK's huge NHS IT project

The world's largest healthcare IT project seems to have hit some real trouble. Richard Granger, the Director General of the UK's Connecting for Health project, has accused policymakers at the Department of Health of asking for changes well after specs were designed and contracts were settled. The degree of infighting is somewhat surprising given that the first round of installations were apparently going quite well. In an email to Margaret Edwards, the director for access and patient choice, Granger suggests that her requests for changes are "in grave danger of derailing (not just destabilizing) a £6.2 billion program." Article

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