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| September 15, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The pounds 15 billion NHS IT programme is 'sleepwalking to disaster' because of short-sighted planning and too much central control, MPs have warned.

Two senior members of the House of Commons Public Acc-ounts Select Committee published a paper urging Connecting for Health (CfH) to rethink its approach to overhauling NHS IT.

Richard Bacon, Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP for Southport, Lancashire accused CfH of being 'fixated' on a small number of central computers holding all NHS data.

Their comments echo…

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