Baseline Study on National Programme for IT
MORI Social Research Institute and NHS Connecting for Health have published the results of a baseline study on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), a large-scale investment into IT infrastructure in the NHS.
The survey shows that overall, NHS staff are supportive of what the programme is trying to achieve and consider it an important priority for the NHS. However, the survey also shows that NHS Connection for Health, the new Department of Health agency delivering NPfIT, needs to build their engagement and communications further with frontline staff, especially doctors and nurses.
The research study will be repeated at regular intervals, allowing NHS Connecting for Health to measure the impact of rollout of the programme and supporting NPfIT communications and stakeholder engagement activities.
Technical details
The MORI survey was carried by telephone, between 22 June and 25 July 2005. Interviews were carried with six types of NHS staff. In total, 1,223 interviews were carried out: 206 with Doctors, 229 with Nurses, 205 with Allied Health Professionals, 202 with NHS Managers, 179 with IM&T Managers and 202 with Administration staff.
Quotas were set during fieldwork to ensure sufficient numbers of interviews were carried out with particular groups of staff. Data were weighted to reflect the known profile of each NHS staff group. In some cases, the full profile of some staff groups is currently not available and therefore the data are not fully representative in some regards.
