[IP] NHS 23
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 18, 2006 3:43:38 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: NHS 23
Hi Dave:
I alerted you to the wiki that I and others have set up concerning
the UK National Health Service's "National Programme for IT" merely
by adding you to the cc list of a message sent to a number of
colleagues. Thus I omitted to make it clear that I thought you might
well find it appropriate to draw the IP list's attention to this
wiki, given that it concerns the problems of what is claimed to be
"the world's biggest civil IT procurement ever!", intended to connect
"over 30,000 GPs in England to almost 300 hospitals and give patients
access to their personal health and care information, transforming
the way the NHS works".
By way of a taster let me quote what has appeared on the (London)
Times' web-site about our wiki:
Compute this (12 Oct 2006)
Daniel Finkelstein's Rolling Guide to the Best Opinion on the Web,
Times Online
http://www.timesonline.typepad.com/comment/
"NHS 23 is a fascinating and horrifying site. It provides an account
of the repeated warnings given to Parliament by 23 of the UK's most
respected IT academics about the multi-billion pound NHS computer
project. They basically warned from the beginning that a fiasco
loomed. Take this: "As experts in complex systems, we are concerned
that the NHS National Program for IT (NPfIT) is starting to show many
of the symptoms displayed by large IT and business change projects
that have failed in the past. We have a wide range of IT backgrounds
and experience, and have studied many failed projects, as well as
many that succeeded. Our professional opinion is that a constructive,
independent review is urgently needed." It was written to the
Commons' Health Committee in May 2004. Last week, they had to send
the same letter again. Anyway, you can pretty much stop anywhere on
the site and read about an unfolding multi-billion pound scandal."
The wiki is at: http://nhs-it.info
Cheers
Brian
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