Myth busters
Many common misconceptions exist about NHS Connecting for Health and the programmes and services it delivers.
The aim of this section is to dispel these misconceptions and enable a clearer understanding of the work of the agency.
Twelve most common myths
- The cost of the National Programme for IT is spiralling
- It's a waste of money
- The project is plagued with delays
- Electronic patient records will risk patient confidentiality
- The centralist model of the National Programme for IT is flawed and unworkable
- There has been limited clinical involvement in the development of IT systems
- Patients' lives have been put at risk by systems going down
- The NHS does not want the National Programme for IT
- The taxpayer will bear the brunt of problems with the National Programme for IT
- The National Programme for IT is yet another botched government IT project
- Technical architecture is flawed
- The NHS IT programme has nothing to do with NHS reform
NHS Connecting for Health
- There will be no compatibility between the systems in use in Scotland and Wales and the new NHS Care Records Service
- NHS Connecting for Health has replaced the National Programme for IT
- Connecting for Health is delivering the National Programme for IT
- NHS Connecting for Health is delivering the National Programme for IT in Scotland and Wales as well as England
Programmes and systems
- The technical architecture of the Spine is not robust enough to meet the needs of the NHS Care Records Service
- NHSmail does not work with Microsoft Outlook
- NHSmail users need to log on three times before they can gain access
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