In 2009 the public accounts committee of the UK government produced a report entitled NPfIT: Progress since 2006. In that report, the implementers of the National Programme for IT (aka Connecting for Health) are criticised for 13 perceived failings in the implementation process. These are enumerated in the main conclusions of the report. You should read the report since it is the main source for your essay. In 2011 the committee published another report entitled The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems You need only read the main body of the reports, however, you may find the evidence, contained in the appendix, interesting (and occasionally disturbing and amusing). A good starting resource for background articles on NPfIT is the NHS 23 page.
Assignment:
You should choose one of the recommendations of the committee to concentrate on. Your essay should comprise:
The plagiarism detection service is an online service that enables institutions and staff to carry out electronic comparison of students' work against electronic sources including other students' work.
The service is managed by The University of Northumbria on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and is available to all UK tertiary education institutions by subscription.
The plagiarism detection service works by executing searches of the world wide web, and extensive databases of reference material, as well as content previously submitted by other users.
Each new submission is compared with all the existing information.
The software makes no decisions as to whether a student has plagiarised, it simply highlights sections of text that are duplicated in other sources. All work will continue to be reviewed by the course tutor.
Once work has been submitted to the system it becomes part of the ever growing database of material against which subsequent submissions are checked.
The software is used as a tool to highlight any instance where there is a possible case of plagiarism. Passages copied directly or very closely from existing sources will be identified by the software and both the original and the potential copy will be displayed for the tutor to view. Where any direct quotations are relevant and appropriately referenced, the course tutor will be able to see this and will continue to consider the next highlighted case. There is an on-line demonstration of the system available at https://www.submit.ac.uk/
Up to one week before the final deadline I will comment on draft versions of your essays. In the final week before the deadline I will not provide feedback on draft essays.
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