Michael Leuty wrote:
> On 02/07/07, Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Actually one remains -
>> Ivan Lewis MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Care Services)
>
> Is he as passionate about NPfIT and as convinced of its success as all
> those who have left?
>
Labour MP for Bury South
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ivan_lewis/bury_south
against a transparent parliament - FOIA
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=freedom+of+information&pid=10357&pop=1
"Written Answers — Health: NHS: Freedom of Information (18 Jun 2007)
Ivan Lewis: Information about Freedom of Information requests made
to the national health service is not collected centrally. Primary care
trusts and other NHS organisations are public authorities and are
consequently obliged to comply fully with the law, including the Freedom
of Information Act 2000."
It occurs to me that a simple thing to do given a commitment to FOI and
the convenience of the citizens and of the workers in the NHS would be
to publish all responses to questions made under the FOIA on a central -
or at worst a series of regional - website, by means of a searchable
database, thus reducing the number of times the same question must be
answered twice, and automatically causing certain information about
those requests to become available if anyone for instance wanted to
count them.
The technology is as usual a trivial problem.
For ID cards
Nothing immediately visible about NPfIT, I expect he has other concerns.
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