At Who Sees What this week we’re too busy helping people put on games to do much blogging, but I thought I’d steer you to this fantastic forecast for 2010 from the Smart Healthcare blog:

Last year saw shockingly disparate reports on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Some declared that the programme had been slashed, after chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget cut announcement in December. Others hailed 2009 as great year for the programme, as the Care Record Service (CRS) was finally rolled out in a few sites – after years of delay – and usage of the already-established Choose & Book and picture archiving and communication system (Pacs) continued to increase.

…2009 did not see any major changes to NPfIT. Several elements of the programme, such as Pacs, radiology information systems (Ris), the N3 broadband network, Choose & Book and the NHSmail email system, had been rolled out in the years before, while CRS progress was very modest.

But there is much suspense over what will happen next.

Read the rest at Smarthealthcare.com