How does SAP fit with the electronic record and NPfIT?
The National Programme for IT, which is being delivered by the new Department of Health agency NHS Connecting for Health, is bringing modern computer systems into the NHS to improve patient care and services. Over the next ten years, the National Programme for IT will connect over 30,000 GPs in England to almost 300 hospitals and give patients access to their personal health and care information, transforming the way the NHS works. The SAP solution that Cheshire has chosen is a three year interim solution prior to the availability of a national solution. At some point in the future the social care community will either be using or interfacing to the NPfIT.
