No prizes for guessing the big news story on E-Health Insider in the week that the Public Accounts Committee issued its second report on the National Programme for IT in the NHS. In the event, the committee's report was short and measured. It was left to PAC chair Edward Leigh and long-term critic Richard Bacon to express the sheer frustration that many now feel with the national programme.

The lack of progress on electronic records can be judged by the fact that although the PAC's report was based on an evidence session in June, there has been just one subsequent deployment of Lorenzo, to one ward of one hospital in Barrow-in-Furness. And the deployment of Millennium in London has gone from a projection of 15 acute trusts to none.

As EHI editor Jon Hoeksma says in this week's Insider View, the big question now is how long the programme can be allowed to remain on its "pivotal point" – and who is going to make a decision about its future one way or another? With Christine Connelly's review no nearer to publication, the answer may be trusts. Worthing and Southlands is apparently thinking of ditching an NPfIT system.

PAC gives NPfIT six months to deliver CRS
The National Programme for IT in the NHS should be given six months to get effective care record systems into acute trusts, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has concluded.

Worthing may dump Cerner Millennium
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust may ditch its brand new Cerner Millennium system in favour of a 20-year old legacy patient administration system.

Call to re-tender for Fujitsu replacement
Conservative health minister Stephen O'Brien has called for a "proper" tendering process to replace Fujitsu as local service provider in the South of England.

Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.

ContactPoint goes live
The government has launched its national children's database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country plus the name and address of any professional working with them.

Barts virus attack ‘avoidable'
The Mytob worm attack on the Barts and the London NHS Trust network was "entirely avoidable", an independent review has concluded.

King's adds VitalPAC to EPR system
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully integrated The Learning Clinic's vital signs recording system, VitalPAC, into its iSoft iCM-based electronic patient record.