The 24-month interim between collection periods resulted from unanticipated extensions to the EHR implementation date.
The commission must undertake critical testing in parallel with programme delivery to meet the implementation date," the NAO report adds.
The 2005 policy gave NHS Boards across Scotland some flexibility regarding when to implement the revised programme of CHS reviews and the implementation date in different Boards consequently varied between 2005 and 2010.
However, the FIA statement said the implementation date of these changes could still be changed by a vote at the end of the month.
"I don't think that's an appropriate date," Liberal MP Bill Blair, who is in charge of the government's pot file, told CBC. "I don't believe July 1 should be an implementation date for anything; it is a day of celebration for the anniversary and founding of our country".
24 The Department of Health guidance was then updated in 2008 to take into account NPSA guidance and additional risks highlighted by the peer review process, with an implementation date of the end of December 2008.
Results from the multivariable models, including the estimated effect of PDMPs on drug overdose mortality, did not change to any meaningful degree when a one-year lag was introduced to the implementation date or when the implementation date was replaced with the date when the state PDMP legislation was enacted.
Local groups are also expected to start running twilight training sessions as the implementation date approaches.
But the system is not yet operational, having missed the intended implementation date by six months (and counting).
But as the implementation date of January 1st approached, opposition became an all-out roar.
"You can put in place a serious fiscal program, which would generate job-creating confidence, but defer the implementation date," he said.
