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Someone on the newsgroup uk.misc wrote: > In article <[log in to unmask]>, Richard Buttrey > <[log in to unmask]> writes > >[log in to unmask] (Paul Burridge) wrote: > >>There was a report on the TV news over the weekend that stated that > >>some astronomical figure (approaching 500,000,000 Pounds) had been > >>spunked by the government on consultancy fees for previously planned > >>but now defunct computer projects. > >I too heard this *news* on R4 over the weekend. What interests me though > >is that this was trumpeted as the result of some fundamental new research > >by the boys and girls of the BBC. > >What was their motive since I remember reading and hearing about the > >Wessex Area Health Authority debacle with their computer systems some > >three years ago? This hardly amounts to news I would have thought. > I spent 2 years on one of the HISS projects, its was easy to see what > was going on from the start. The NHS set up this management executive > thing to promote it etc in the Heath service, unfortunately they didnt > bother employing anyone that was any good <g> The hospitals slavishly > followed the recommendations of the executive, the appaling CBS model > and the now infamous read codes, which I think was invented by someone > for a laugh <g> a coding system that can describe everything in the > universe and a few other things too but at the same time is totally > unusable in real life. > > The projects themselves were badly managed, it seems the NHS thinks it > can get computer systems on the cheap, you pay peanuts ..... But we did > deliver on time and on budget and to the contract, cant say fairer than > that. > > Its such a pity as here is this huge organisation that could really do > with a streamlined efficient administrative system, that would save > millons each year. > > We all learn from our mistakes, sadly the NHS doesnt seem to bother. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%