Official 'Your message to Junior Doctors' thread

[sasguru]

hmmmm.

Have a look at the HCA self pay site. It's the one linked to from the ad on their main page.

Linky

That's the sort of attention to detail you want from an urgent healthcare provider.

If you judge a health provider by its IT, stay well clear of the NHS

[jaffab]

Here's a number for you. £15.76billion.

In 2003, Labour came up with the idea of refreshing the IT in the NHS. The 4 selected providers (in 5 regional sectors) were paid £15.76billion over 6 years to update all the NHS IT systems. They were tasked with deploying 9,200 systems over 154 Trusts (hospitals). In the end, they deployed 342 systems over 96 trusts. In 2013, the program official ended. At this date, of the 342 systems actually deployed, 78 had been replaced as the new systems were not fit for purpose. The only systems which really remain of the original set of systems were Radiology imaging (RIS), some pathology systems (iSOFT/WinPath) mental/community health systems (Rio), the NHS email service (nhs.mail) and a few service systems.

£15.76 is equal to £21.9billion in todays money. Today there are 55,000 Jnr Doctors working in the NHS. So that's £400,000 per Jnr Doctor, effectively wasted.

Of course, its not all bad news, us contractors working on the NPfIT program did rather well. As said by Blackadder...

"Basically, it's a right old mess. Toffs at the top, plebs at the bottom, and me in the middle making a fat pile of cash out of both of them"

[Pondlife]

If you judge a health provider by its IT, stay well clear of the NHS

Good point, well made