Following sustained criticism of the National Programme for IT, the government is absorbing NHS computing into the state sector mainstream Amid the embarrassment and recrimination following the latest damning report into the English NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT), one outcome is certain. No longer will the NHS be able to set its own IT policy, distinct from the rest of the public sector. Even before Parliament's public accounts committee (PAC) reported on the dismal progress of care records systems in secondary care , the Cabinet Office had already taken the NHS under its wing...