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Programme Management for Local Health Communities
Ensuring that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Local Health Communities (LHC) and individual Trusts are
implementing huge ICT agendas. The NPfIT (being implemented by
Connecting for Health, CfH) instigated a raft of projects around
the implementation of choose and book, the registration
authority, and N3. In some areas EPR solutions have also
been addressed, whereas in others planning has been more complex
as due to changes in scope an slippage in the national
programme. For most LHCs and Trusts these demands come on top of
already urgent projects addressing local imperatives and
initiatives.
Individual projects are managed through PRINCE2, which helps
to ensure their success. But where there are many interdependent
projects, then, there is an additional need to manage the whole
programme of projects through a Programme Management approach.
Programme management is not just a single discipline. It
addresses the complexities of inter-project dependencies (both
for completion and realization of benefits), cross-party
facilitation, identifying economies of scale, sharing lessons
and experience, managing inter-project and pan-project risks and
issues, defining and enforcing quality, process and technical
standards; and – vitally – maintaining a view of the ‘big
picture’. Implemented properly, Programme Management ensures
that individual projects deliver the overall vision: something
greater than the sum of the parts.
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