TEIS - UK Telemedicine and E-health Information Service
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The National Programme for IT in the NHS was announced by Lord Hunt on 12 June 2002. The Programme focuses on the key developments that will make a significant difference to improving the patient experience and the delivery of care and services. There are four key deliverables: electronic appointment booking, an integrated care records service, electronic prescribing and an underpinning IT infrastructure with sufficient connectivity and broadband capacity to support the critical national applications and local systems.
The National Programme has been created specifically to manage the introduction of new NHS-wide applications and services. Central funding for the National Programme for IT in the NHS has been made available as follows - £370 million in 2003/04, £730 million in 2004/05 and £1.2 billion in 2005/06. This represents investment of £2.3 billion in information technology for the NHS over the next three years and supports the vision of the NHS Plan. This funding will be supplemented by local investment, currently running at £850m a year from baseline allocations.