The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is an initiative by the Department of Health in England to move the National Health Service towards a single, centrally-mandated electronic care record for patients and to connect 30,000 General practitioners to 300 hospitals, providing secure and audited access to these records by authorised health professionals. The Department of Health agency NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) is responsible for delivering this programme. In due course it is planned that patients will also have access to their records online through a service called HealthSpace. NPfIT is said by the NHS CFH agency to be "the world's biggest civil information technology programme".
Charterhouse has deployed over 100 professional
technologists organised into teams at numerous sites in order
to help facilitate the project.
