le for ensuring that the new NHS IT strategy is followed, with the aim of providing an information infrastructure to support the activities and aims of, for example, NICE. The Authority will subsume bodies such as the National Casemix Office and the NHS Centre for Coding and Classification.The timetable for implementation of 'The New NHS' was given as around 3 years.ConclusionsI believe that the NHS would be a good health service to follow. There are undoubtedly many problems with the service in England and Wales at the moment, even though plans are constantly being put into effect to remedy the far from perfect situation. The defects are obvious for all to see, since the NHS became operational in 1948 there has been an ample amount of time to analyse them. If an emerging foreign government wished to reform their countrys health care service the NHS would be a good base to start from. They would be able to establish their service with 53 years worth of knowledge of the problems we have dealt with. ...
