MPs put the boot in ... again

Now the UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee produces The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems.

This follows on from last week's report by the Public Administration Select Committee A Recipe for Rip-Offs - Time for a new approach which we reported on here.

The latest report (again only in html) recommends that the detailed care record database system is scrapped according to the BBC piece.

Ironic that on the one hand eveyone is condemning Tory-Lib proposals for NHS reform and on the other the NHS IT initiative, in its many aspects, is coming under such flack.

NHS Together Day of Action

The Daily (Maybe) has a report on last Saturday's NHS Together Day of Action in Cambridge with links to other reports.

NHS Together - Update

Here's a link to the the latest BBC story on the NHS Day of Action today.

NHS Together

NHS Together is a campaign that, to quote,

"brings together all the health service unions and staff associations together with the TUC.

It's a new campaign alliance of health staff. We want to raise the alarm at what is happening to the NHS and to press the government for honest and open discussion about its reform agenda.

The NHS has been getting better thanks to increased spending and the dedication and commitment of NHS workers to new ways of working.

But progress is under threat:

• Health trust deficits are causing cuts in patient care and staff jobs


• NHS staff support reform that delivers better patient care, but that has been replaced by untested rapid changes with no staff involvement.


• the fragmentation of the NHS threatens the NHS values that bind it together.
  

On Saturday 3 March NHS Together is planning a national day of action with the aim of sending a powerful message in celebration and defence of the NHS.

Here's the NHS Together website where you can find events in your local area.

For our sake, Lucia's, John's and everyone's, please please support it.

(And don't forget to sign the online petition).