RE: Chancellor to spend billions more on NHS24 Oct 2021 20:25
The only people who will benefit from it will be the IT consultants.
I have never known a Government sponsored IT system to function well. Now I guess we will see nurses and doctors even more glued to their screens, to the detriment of ward duties.
Doesn’t Rishi know that whenever the NHS tries this the cash gets gobbled up and the new system gets abandoned because it doesn’t work.
The last effort at this, about 10 years ago, with the Lorenzo system, resulted in the loss of 10 billion pounds, and what remnants there are of that system has, more recently, caused havoc in Sheffield.
The public can opt out of having their information used for secondary purposes if it can be used to identify them.
Currently, the opt-out rate is low (below 3%). However, if large numbers of people have concerns and choose to opt out, then planning and research will be less effective.
The failure of NHSE&I and NHS Digital to maintain public trust previously resulted in the closure of the care data programme in 2016.
A related risk arises from cyber security. The NHS’s legacy IT systems are especially vulnerable to cyber-attack and loss of data. Although work has been undertaken to improve cyber security since the 2017 WannaCry attack, it remains a concern
The NHS. does not need more money. It needs better management.