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Govt should 'can NHS computer programme'

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The National Audit Office says the government's multi-billion pound programme to computerise patient records will never be fully delivered, and what has been provided so far has not been value for money.

Richard Bacon, a Conservative member of the Public Accounts Committee, outlines the problems.

And the health minister Simon Burns responds to calls for the programme to be scrapped.


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