PEOPLE - UK's Department of Health makes appointment:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK's Department of Health today announced the appointment of Alan Burns, chief executive of Trent Strategic Health Authority, as director of service implementation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Mr Burns' appointment, a 15-month part-time secondment combined with his existing role at Trent SHA, comes only days after setting out his views of the challenges and opportunities of the ongoing modernisation of diagnostic imaging and pathology.