you are so wrong
they have spent £2bn max which is has got rid of x-rays and almost half of the useless referal letters
maybe you should opt out of the computer age nhs and die sooner
idiot
Dear Mr Accuracy Czar,
Automating X-rays and other images. This could have been done using internationally developed and supported computer systems available off-the-shelf for less £5m per hospital, or about £700m if all of the acute hospital trusts wanted to do it.
There are two fundamental flaws in the current project. Firstly the delivery of health is essentially a local issue. The number of cases where record on someone living in Penzance is needed in Aberdeeen are miniscule.
There is little or no patient benefit from making records available outside of their GP and a few local hospitals. There is an increased risk of them being misused. Secondly there is little doctor benefit when treating patients in having records nationally available, only the risk that some national administrator will try to second guess his clinical judgement and penalise him for failing to apply some DoH guideline or rationing policy.
Whey add massive cost and technical risk to deliver no value to patients or doctors? Let the individual trusts buy what they need, and restrict the National infrastructure to data transfer protocols for sharing those relatively small amounts of information that need to move between locations and organisations.
acurracy czar- you're right that so far they've reportedly only spent £2bn (see this blog- http://burningourmoney.blogspot....-
disasters.html ), but the whole project is officially estimated at between £12.4bn (NAO nobbled report- see this blog- http://burningourmoney.blogspot....g-
nobblers.html )and £20bn (Health Minisiter Lord Warner- see this blog- http://burningourmoney.blogspot....ers-
update.html ). And as I expect you know, some insiders told Computer Weekly, it could be £30-50 bn.
As for opting out of the "computer age NHS", I'm in the extremely fortunate position of having private health insurance, so I already have. Most people are not nearly so lucky.
But thanks for your concern.
Robert- I agree. And that's exactly why many people (eg the excellent PAC member Richard Bacon) are clling for the top-down NPfIT to be stopped and the funds reallocated for use locally.
acurracy is spelt accuracy.
Maybe you should be the irony czar?
Does anyone know what happened to Granger? Did he end up at a consultancy??
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