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.K. Dept. of Health Base Case">
U.K. Dept. of Health Base Case
Headquarters: Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London, England SW1A 2NS
Phone: 020 7210 4850
Chief Executive: Patricia Hewitt, Health Secretary
Chief Technology Officer: Richard Granger, Director General of I.T., National Health Service (NHS)
Financials in 2005: The Department of Health has a budget in excess of 27 billion pounds ($50 billion U.S.).
Challenge: The National Program for Information Technology is a 10-year initiative to deploy new computer systems, reform the way the NHS uses technology and, in the process, improve services and the quality of patient care.
Baseline Goals
Connect electronically more than 100,000 doctors, 380,000 nurses and 50,000 other health-care workers.
Store health information on 50 million people in England.
Reduce the time it takes to send medical images, such as X-rays, from about four minutes to less than one minute.
Projects: Management 
