"It isn't working, and it isn't going to work."

"It isn't working, and it isn't going to work. There is a belief that the national programme is somehow going to propel transformation in the NHS simply by delivering an IT system. Nothing could be further from the truth. A vacuum, a chasm, is opening up."

That was the verdict last year of the then head of Fujitsu's healthcare consultancy practice, Andrew Rollerson, regarding the NHS Supercomputer system.

Burning Our Money has a really good article on this scandalous waste of taxpayers money, do read it all.