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Health Secretary promises NHS £4.2bn to go 'digital'

Peter2 Silver badge

The NHS is not an single entity, it's a billing structure. This is how it started off post WW2 and it's basically how it remains with little in the way of changes. Nobody would design a system this way, but even proposing to change it will face masses of misinformed hystria such as "SAVE OUR NHS!!11!!11" and opposition to having any part of the the NHS in private ownership, despite the fact that GP's practices (which virtually everybody agrees is the best part of the NHS) are, have always been and will always be for profit businesses owned by the doctors.

When in a single county you might have half a dozen or more NHS trusts, plus several hundred individual GP practices all doing their own things IT wise then trying to standardise anything nationwide is really something of a pipe dream.

Even if starting a massive IT project to "save money" would be a sane idea when it is managed by government, which it isin't. The government made IT solutions for the NHS suck, frankly. That's why EMIS is so popular amongst anybody with any choice in using it!

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