Jean Roberts, head of the Policy Group, Health Informatics Forum of the British Computer Society, says:
"It is interesting to read the Public Accounts Committee report - Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS - and hear some of the "Radical Steps" and "Way Forward" recommendations being re-confirmed. We look forward to being involved in progressing the high impact and useful parts of the National Programme for IT in a climate of transparency, appropriate resourcing and locally valued business change."
My comment: the phrases "climate of transparency", "appropriate resourcing" and "locally valued business change" sound at first like bland business terms but for the Department of Health they each represent a demanding task.
It could be said that a climate of transparency is something everyone in Whitehall talks about and nobody really wants; and appropriate resourcing is something the Treasury supposes it gives and everyone in the public sector is still waiting for.
