NHS IT spend fell during 2009, statistics suggest
July 4th, 2010
A government minister yesterday revealed that the NHS spent £1.6 billion on IT revealed in the 2008 to 2009 financial year, most of which went to the health service’s ill-fated National Programme for IT.
Healthcare IT minister Simon Burns revealed the figure for the 08/09 financial year in response to a written parliamentary question from Conservative MP Mike Weatherly, although he did not give explicit details of how this number has been calculated.
A report by IT analyst Kable in 2009 showed that total NHS IT spend for 07/08 totalled £2.4 billion. W