<P> The NHS was also required to take on pro-active socially "directive" policies, for example, in respect of smoking and obesity . </P> <P> In the 1980s and 90s, NHS IT spent money on several failed IT projects . The Wessex project, in the 1980s, attempted to standardise IT systems across a regional health authority . The London Ambulance Service was to be a computer - aided dispatch system . Read code was an attempt to develop a new electronic language of health, later scheduled to be replaced by SNOMED CT . </P> <P> The NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1999 with the goal to bring together four NHS IT and Information bodies (NHS Telecoms, Family Health Service (FHS), NHS Centre for Coding and Classification (CCC) and NHS Information Management Group (IMG)) to work together to deliver IT infrastructure and information solutions to the NHS in England . A 2002 plan was for NHSIA to implement four national IT projects: Basic infrastructure, Electronic records, Electronic prescribing, and Electronic booking, modelled after the large NHS Direct tele - nurse and healthcare website program . The NHSIA functions were divided into other organisations by April 2005 . </P> <P> In 2002, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) was announced by the Department of Health . </P>

Which parts of the health care system are paid for or controlled by the government