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Warning over potential NHS IT spending cuts

12 January 2010
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Warning over potential NHS IT spending cutsAttempts to cut the cost of the NHS IT programme through operations management and other measures must not be carried out at the expense of its potential benefits.

This is the view of Intellect associate director Sureyya Cansoy, who claimed: "In these tough times it is important to look at finding efficiencies, but not to undermine the important role that technologies can play."

She explained that IT can be used in "transforming" service delivery and the ways in which government operates in the UK.

A poll of healthcare workers by website E-Health Insider revealed that NHS IT will come under pressure during 2010, with changes to the National Programme for IT expected in the wake of the general election and tighter budgets in the sector predicted.

In his pre-Budget statement to MPs in December, chancellor Alistair Darling stated that IT projects will be subject to cuts as part of attempts to reduce public spending, something which operations training courses could assist with.ADNFCR-3058-ID-19552711-ADNFCR
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