RE: Not long now for CV19 to effect oil producing countries18 Mar 2020 13:02
Hi all,
" To get bigger, you pay for it; to get better, you work for it".
The NHS spent roughly £ 6Bn on hardware and £ 6Bn on software (before cost overruns) for SPINE, a centralised electronic records system. It's been an unmitigated disaster , see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
…"In April 2007, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons issued a damning 175-page report on the programme. The Committee chairman, Edward Leigh, claimed "This is the biggest IT project in the world and it is turning into the biggest disaster." The report concluded that, despite a probable expenditure of 20 billion pounds "at the present rate of progress it is unlikely that significant clinical benefits will be delivered by the end of the contract period."[6]
In September 2013, the Public Accounts Committee said that although the National Programme for IT had been effectively disbanded in 2011, some large regional contracts and other costs remained outstanding and were still costing the public dearly. It described the former National Programme for IT as one of the "worst and most expensive contracting fiascos" ever.[26]
The costs of the venture should have been lessened by the contracts signed by the IT providers making them liable for huge sums of money if they withdrew from the project; however, when Accenture withdrew in September 2006, then Director-General for NPfIT Richard Granger charged them not £1bn, as the contract permitted, but just £63m.[27] Granger's first job was with Andersen Consulting,[28] which later became Accenture. …"
The equivalent £ 12 Bn was enough to give the world Google....
This is an extreme example - there are innumerable other, lesser, instances of venality and incompetence - of how the totemic, sacred cow nature of the NHS in the British psyche , society and political life has allowed vested interests over the years to get away with what , literally, amounts to murder.
ATB
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