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Nowhere near as much as the £12Bn the NHS spent on an impossible moving-spec IT system that they also scrapped(1). Oh wait, it's a tenth of the amount. (1) htt
by tehwalrus 13y ago
Nowhere near as much as the £12Bn the NHS spent on an impossible moving-spec IT system that they also scrapped(1). Oh wait, it's a tenth of the amount.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
- tubs 13y agoA tenth of 12B would be 1.2B. This is a hundredth.
- tehwalrus 13y agoApologies, physicists are often off by an order of magnitude ;)
- lsd5you 13y agoThis is widely reported size of the waste, but as I understand it, because the program was cancelled 'only' £2bn was wasted.
- rch 13y agoThe US has contributed some nice failures as well. For example, caBIG ($300M+): https://www.google.com/search?q=cabig+failure https://www.google.com/search?q=cabig+failure
- thisone 13y agoSaying the program was scrapped is a bit off. It makes it sound like nothing has come out of the project at all. Choose and Book is widely in use, the Spine exists, as well as the N3 network. Data format and transfer standards are coming into play now. So instead of one system to rule them all, it's working towards interop. Which probably should have been the overall goal to begin with. People like to think of the NHS as a monolith, but it's really hundreds of tiny fiefdoms.
- hahainternet 13y agoTiny fiefdoms all on 172.16 They could easily have picked ipv6 and done it the smart way. Oh how things could have been.
- arctangent 13y agoRelevant recent news: http://www.nao.org.uk/report/review-of-the-final-benefits-statement-for-programmes-previously-managed-under-the-national-programme-for-it-in-the-nhs/ http://www.nao.org.uk/report/review-of-the-final-benefits-st...