Leslie Willcocks, Professor in Information Systems at the London
School of Economics, says of the NHS’s National Programme for IT
[NPfIT] that it is at the “outer reaches of “at the outer reaches
of known territory”. But is it right for the government to use
public money to take such immense risks with public money – not to
mention patient safety?
Leslie Willcocks makes the point that there’s a natural tendency
on huge projects for civil servants and ministers to downplay their
full cost for fear of frightening off the funders. In this video he
talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the NPfIT, the lessons
to be learned, and refers to a series of expert views on the
programme that are published in the Journal of Information
Technology.
