one programme!

NPfIT is not presented as a multitude of programmes of which some might be expected to wither and die,and some succeed. @above. It is presented as The National Programme for IT (or was until it lost its top, changed its name, and commenced a recognisable process)

The many entities on and around healthcare are more like nodes on the Internet than a rigidly controllable well-understood structured corporation, and the laissez-faire development with attention to linkage of the 'Net is a better model than the "ruthless" approach of that chap who was going on to do a couple more of the years he so much enjoyed, until his mind changed.