On yesterday’s World at One (Tuesday 30 May 2006) Richard Bacon MP, member of the Public Accounts Committee was interviewed about the unfolding disaster that is “”http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/“>The National Programme for IT in the NHS”:

“…there are shelf loads of advice saying when your doing a big project, do things bit by bit – incrementally. Go from the known to the unknown one step at a time. Don’t try and do a big-bang.”

“And its not like we haven’t been here before: the Wessex Regional Health Authority disaster was such a big disaster because it was a big-bang scheme, dreamed up from the centre……”

Its great to see the message is finally trickling through.