Two snippets of interest from this weeks 'Computing' magazine:
(http://www.vnu.co.uk/bc/ctg )
SCOTS HEALTH RECORDS AT RISK FOLLOWING CSC SYSTEMS FIASCO
(accompanied by a glum picture of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)
NHS data cenres run by CSC Computer Sciences are 'close to meltdown'
according to health service officials.
One source at CSA fumed: 'Were having tremendous problems.
CSC has completely underestimated the cost of NHS computing'
Dr. Hassey, please do comment - this may be a very biased report.
and
READ CODE DISTRIBUTOR HIT BY AUDITOR SCANDAL
CAMS, which distributes the Read code medical thesaurus to trusts and GPS
has denied any impropriety following criticism that it deliberately tried to
deceive the NHS Executive's auditors.
John Hearns
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