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Peter Day examines trends and developments in industry and the world of work.
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We try to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers.
In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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All change for the NHS?
In this week's programme...
Digital Treatment
In this week鈥檚 In Business, Peter Day hears all about an absolutely huge project to put all 50-million plus of the English National Heath Service patient records onto a giant computerised database.
It鈥檚 costing 拢6 billion, the biggest ever attempted in Britain. It could transform the way healthcare is delivered. It could be a horribly expensive damp squib. Which way will it go?
After decades of little more than improvisation, the NHS is England is being computerised: 50 million patient and hospital records, perhaps a lot more, all digitised and instantly available at any level of the health service.
It will take at least five years to roll out and it is by far the most ambitious information technology project ever undertaken in Britain, and one of the biggest in the world.
That description alone rings warning bells for the experts because big IT projects have a tendency to fail and big government projects are notorious for going wrong.
Those involved say the impact of this project is going to be so radical that it makes foundation hospitals a small sideshow. The leaders of this massive project believe this computerisation of the NHS will transform healthcare and for the first time since the NHS was created fifty years ago the service will be focussed around the patient. As well as all the benefits promised it raises serious questions about the security of the data, and who can have access to the records.
Is enough understood about the process of patient care before 拢6 billion is spent on technology? The price of failure is the future health of the National Health Service itself.
Contributors
Richard Granger
Head of for the NHS
Dr Cecila Pyper
GP at Buryknowle Health Centre, Oxford
Victor Lopes
MRC Research Fellow University of Birmingham and honorary specialist registrar
Brian Millar
Medical Director NHS Trust
Matthew Gibbons
General Dental Practioner, Wolverhampton
Tim Smart
Chief Executive,
Leslie Stretch
MD, Sun Microsystems UK
John Seddon
John McDermid
Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York
Dr John Powell
Head of Committee
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