Fu*ck up the contract, fail to deliver and get paid. No one had the balls to kick them where they deserve.
CSC pockets £68m in truce over NHS patient database fiasco
CSC and the UK government have reached a truce over the company's central patient database cock-up: both sides have agreed to a more flexible contract until 2016 and to shelve any potential litigation. The corporation and the Department of Health (DoH) have been at the negotiating table for months now over the bungled delivery …
-
-
Thursday 6th September 2012 07:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Having used Lorenzo 4 years ago when i was in the NHS I cant imagine why anyone would have paid anything for it in the first place. It was buggy, slow, difficult to interface into other systems and if I remember rightly required a very specific version of Java to run. But the problem isn't that the project was too large, it was just poorly managed, badly designed and built on technologies which were not suitable. However now telling hospitals to do what they want wont really help either! No one ever heard of standardisation?! The people that made the application and the people who negotiated the contract should be ashamed of themselves.