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Former health secretary and chair of health select committee says that better use of IT will help eliminate waste in the NHS, reports Gill Hitchcock When the Audit Commission published its review of England's NHS this summer and warned of growing financial pressures, trusts already knew that achieving savings equivalent to about 5% of their budgets each year until 2015 meant doing things differently and more efficiently. Stephen Dorrell, the chair of the health select committee and former health secretary, believes making better use of IT is key to eliminating inefficiencies in the NHS, but...

Health service organisations are turning to each other to provide shared services Although cross-boundary NHS service provision was commonplace prior to the 1974 NHS reorganisation, such services declined afterwards. However, since the NHS Plan of 2000 – which created the current trust-centric structure for England – they have been returning, although some such operations date back to the early 1990s. The idea behind NHS shared services is that trusts and other health bodies in a given area can pool their resources and go for the clear economies of scale that larger public sector organisations...