Here are a couple of comments from that poll of UK Doctors“It...

Here are a couple of comments from that poll of UK Doctors


“It would be a mistake to abandon the work done so far. An age old problem with the NHS is that things get reinvented all the time, as if they had never been thought of before. And expecting total reform in the lifetime of a Parliament is unrealistic,” said another.

And puncturing the generally gloomy and tetchy mood, some respondents felt that whatever its past problems, NPfIT was on the verge of delivering something worthwhile. “Lorenzo is agonisingly close to actually delivering what acute trusts have waited ten years for,” wrote one respondent. “It would be tragic if it was snatched away for political or (in the South) commercial reasons.”

“IT is coming on so well for patients and clinicians it would be a shame to hinder progress. We need to implement the best means of delivering safe, auditable patient care, which is basically underpinned by clever clinical and administrative IT systems,” concluded another.


The full story is here
http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/518/put_cross_here