NHS-UK £12.7 billion National Programme for IT to be Scrapped

by liamssoft | September 21, 2011 at 11:39 pm

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The NHS has spent £12.7 billion on The National Programme for IT, a computerised patient record and booking system across the entire NHS, which has never worked properly, after years of delays, technical difficulties, contractual disputes and rising costs Health secretary Andrew Lansley, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson have decided to scrap it and discontinue the programme rather than put even more money into it.

This huge amount of money should have been spent on nurses and improving patient care, and not on big international IT companies and adds to the growing cost of cancellations of other government IT schemes including the £5 billion ID card scheme and the Fire Centres Project which cost £469 million.

Included are some propaganda videos made for the sole purpose of promoting a computer system that was never needed.

guardian.co.uk