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I've got about 20 similar anecdotes from personal experience I'm afraid. The NHS spent over £30bn in today's money on a largely undelivered and undeployed IT s
by easytiger 4y ago
I've got about 20 similar anecdotes from personal experience I'm afraid.
The NHS spent over £30bn in today's money on a largely undelivered and undeployed IT system that they canned.
It is institutionally incapable of efficiency or common sense ideas like this. They are immune to it. 1.3 million direct employees and no one with agency. And yes, it is frustrating. You can see it at the micro levels as a user too. It is bizarre and costly.
If you fancy a box ticking non job that's not helping anyone achieve anything they have you covered in the thousands though.
On top of that laws have actually been changed to ensure small or single person contractors who kept things running from working for the NHS. So now they are wholly dependant on large consulting firms.
- cs02rm0 4y agoYeah, I was working on a Radiology Information System under NPfIT. We ended up putting in configuration options for everything we were asked to change, despite being explicitly told not to make it configurable and ended up just changing flags back and forth on a weekly basis as they changed their minds between the same options. Must have driven some people mad. > no one with agency. That's killer isn't it, absolutely killer.