NHS IT System

[eek]

It was a waterfall project implemented backwards without thought or care by a government who thought spending money was a substitute for thinking.

What they should have done was designing a protocol for patient health data and the means of transferring it across systems. That would have let the existing providers to continue creating data while they could think about how to sensible store the data nationally.

Of course that didn't give them big projects to announce and give to their mates so it would never happen under a labour government.

At least Tony Blair will shortly be officially called the war criminal he is.

[Sysman]

Tescos is private sector.

Tesco don't have management by committee.

[Pondlife]

My understanding is that they basically restarted from scratch in 2006/7 and have since been headed by her

[eek]

Tesco don't have management by committee.

Or people who think money is a substitute to thinking, planning and decision making.

[Sysman]

Or people who think other people's money is a substitute to thinking, planning and decision making.

FTFY

[sasguru]

If you look at the calibre of the Labour apparatchiks: Dawn Primarolo, Patricia Hewitt etc. etc ad. nauseum is it any surprise that the project failed?
But I sense a Plan E in this - a consultancy dedicated to project managing Public sector projects should be a good earner.
Need the connections - but I have those.

[MarillionFan]

Politics. Pure and simple.

I headed up the team for a healthcare
company that designed the primary health care integration tools to be used with EMIS, Torex, Synergy etc. There
were dozens of disperate systems and we managed to get 12 working. During the initial proof of
concept phases before the contracts were awarded we
turned up and were the first to pass a GP2GP HL7 message from a source system across the data spine and picked up
by a different healthcare system. That kudos got the company in question a £30m project.

The armed forces in the UK already have an
integrated system. The reason this didn't work is that doctors surgeries and PCTs act as their own seperate entities with their own systems and politics. Government should have made the PCTs carry penalties as well as the system providers that way they would have played ball.

[DimPrawn]

If you look at the calibre of the Labour apparatchiks: Dawn Primarolo, Patricia Hewitt etc. etc ad. nauseum is it any surprise that the project failed?
But I sense a Plan E in this - a consultancy dedicated to project managing Public sector projects should be a good earner.
Need the connections - but I have those.

You missed Plan D. Dreaming whilst unemployed.

[Pondlife]

If you look at the calibre of the Labour apparatchiks: Dawn Primarolo, Patricia Hewitt etc. etc ad. nauseum is it any surprise that the project failed?
But I sense a Plan E in this - a consultancy dedicated to project managing Public sector projects should be a good earner.
Need the connections - but I have those.

Accidenture.

Nuff said

[Old Greg]

The contracts bound everyone into a structure (in every sense) that did not reflect business needs. What clinical staff would have wanted if anyone had bothered to properly ask was:

1. A decent Patient Administration System (especially in community and metal health providers where the need was dire) as a foundation for:
2. Community wide order communications (requests and results of pathology radiology tests)
3. Electronic prescribing and drug administration records
4. Basic clinical documentation
5. Specialist clinical documentation
6. Complex patient management tools, care planning etc.

What they got was all of these things being developed in tandem and none of them properly.

Anyway that's my expereince of more years around the programme than the programme has even existed for. Still, made me some money.