NHS to scrap £356m outpatient booking system

mathepac

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It seems the HSE is not the only statutory health body that messes up where IT is concerned.

I've often wondered is it because the NHS/HSEs of this world are "only" spending tax-payers' money that these enormous projects fail or fail to deliver?

I guess the only difference between the two organisations and their IT failures is the magnitude of the waste.

The key failures here are common to almost all failed IT projects - the key-user, the GP, hasn't got time to fit the new work into his existing work-flow and the system wasn't designed as user-friendly for IT novices.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/...ap%20%A3356m%20outpatient%20booking%20system_
 
Scaling that to our population it would be like the HSE wasting €28 million. I'd be delighted if that was all they wasted each year!
 
I have been involved in plenty of private sector projects that have ended the same way. Not specific to spending taxpayers money. Nothing can waste money like IT projects.
 
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