03/11/2004
IT programme must engage doctors or risk failure, warns BMA
In a speech delivered to delegates attending an eHealth conference, Dr John Powell, Chairman of the BMA's IT committee, has urged the NHS National Programme for Information Technology to engage properly with medical professionals or risk failure.
Dr Powell said: "The programme should support healthcare workers in delivering a better service to their patients. We hope that improvements to IT systems will reduce the administrative burden on doctors so they can spend more time treating patients.
"This goal will only be realised if the national programme can provide systems that are at least as effective as those currently in use. Clinical staff must be consulted. There is no point investing billions of pounds in systems that do not have the confidence of users."
Dr Powell told delegates that the national IT programme must learn the lessons of other high profile public sector IT projects such as that of the passport office fiasco of 1999.
He said that large-scale public IT projects do not have a good track record in the UK and so it is paramount that the NHS learns the lessons of history and engages with the frontline staff who will be using the new systems.
The NHS National program for IT aims to provide better information for health and patient care, where and when it is needed across England, but Dr Powell said, "so far the level of engagement and consultation with the medical profession has been wholly inadequate."
The eHealth conference organised by IBC Global Conferences looked at transforming healthcare access and delivery via IT.
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Dr Powell said: "The programme should support healthcare workers in delivering a better service to their patients. We hope that improvements to IT systems will reduce the administrative burden on doctors so they can spend more time treating patients.
"This goal will only be realised if the national programme can provide systems that are at least as effective as those currently in use. Clinical staff must be consulted. There is no point investing billions of pounds in systems that do not have the confidence of users."
Dr Powell told delegates that the national IT programme must learn the lessons of other high profile public sector IT projects such as that of the passport office fiasco of 1999.
He said that large-scale public IT projects do not have a good track record in the UK and so it is paramount that the NHS learns the lessons of history and engages with the frontline staff who will be using the new systems.
The NHS National program for IT aims to provide better information for health and patient care, where and when it is needed across England, but Dr Powell said, "so far the level of engagement and consultation with the medical profession has been wholly inadequate."
The eHealth conference organised by IBC Global Conferences looked at transforming healthcare access and delivery via IT.
(SP)
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