Cut Waste-save money for better NHS service

Computer systems-It is a huge uneccesary task to make every patients record available throughout the UK: Far better to try within a county-each practice has its own preferred independent system and database-every one would need to be replaced...

No consultation with users, GPs, worries about confidentiality...
Government in-house developments and results are poor! Compare the DoHSS, Universal credit huge waste systems..!!!

External private suppliers are even poorer: so why try??? "Its a nice ambition, inherently risky"- David Nicholson

The "National program for IT in the NHS"
Bill Gates convinced Tony Blair-a national system for booking appointments, a national prescription service, a national records service was essential...
for the entire system, costs rose from initial £2.3 billion in 2002 to £11.4 billion nine years later
In 2011 DoH spent £6.64 billion-how many front line doctors and nurses, medical equipment could that have bought???
Blair wanted it introduced by 2005 election. In the end, DoHealth abandoned the contract. Accenture walked away from £2 billion contract in 2006
2008 Fujitsu ended-termination cost tens of millions...
cost more to terminate than continue
CSC wanted "Lorenzo"
130 interim systems costing £105 million
In 2015 Treasury gave Hunt yet another £1 billion for integrated care records
Connecting for Health-recommended by McKinsey, run by Deloitte-largely non-operational, haemorrhaging costs of £20 billion...

Additionally-by overloading, burnout, sheer frustration-many Doctors, Surgeons, nurses and midwives take shorter hours, early retirement, change country or carreers... such waste

15% of nurses leave during training...