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The Department of Health has failed in its attempt to properly integrate electronic care records across the NHS system, MPs concluded in a scathing Public Accounts Committee report published this morning. Politicos said that Andrew Lansley's department should seriously consider ditching the £7bn implementation of the care …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    MP's critical of previous government's policies and spending?

    Is that even a headline item these days?

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  2. David 164

    It was not the idea that was the problem.

    There were several big problems with this programme.

    GPs., Doctors and generally the health profession.

    MPs

    Over optimistic time tables. (there was not way this was going happen in 3 years like the original plan was)

    No central authority taking command of the project from the beginning to end. An not enough leadership and ruthlessness n that leadership to drive through the programme. Which is why it was constant delayed.

    Constant changes to the programme by everyone.

    There is nothing wrong with the idea of a single IT system being rolled out across the NHS able to handle all of the patient data (prescription, medical conditions, appointments, test results) on single platform, it could be highly efficient and save money and time. It was the implementation that went wrong. An that everyone thought.

    Sadly Langley plans for a more divided up NHS, with many more people taking on patents from the NHS, a central computer system would make the new make up of the NHS more likely to succeed.

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  3. zen1
    Mushroom

    I can't speak for BT...

    but if CSC-UK is anything like the GOS based out of the states, one of the reasons it was so damn expensive is CSC has more project managers and bean counters than they do competent technical folk.

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