21c Participates in Major Independent NHS IT Review

Following the release of an independent review into NHS IT, the Conservatives have announced plans to overhaul Labour's current system.

The proposals aim to deliver cost savings and will help ensure that NHS IT is geared towards the needs and wishes of patients. In addition, patients will be consulted on the use of their healthcare information.

The key proposals are to:

•Seek to dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure, delivering its benefits through local systems instead.
•Halt and renegotiate the contracts Labour have signed for IT service providers to prevent further inefficiencies.
•Stop imposing central IT systems on the NHS, instead allowing healthcare providers to use and develop the IT they have already purchased and developed, within a rigorous framework of interoperability.
•Encourage the use of open source across the public sector. As healthcare IT is freed from the constraints of Labour's central programme, both private sector and open source software will develop.
21c participated in this review - contact us for more details