NHS IT system latest failure

Your Local Guardianreport that:

" The roll-out of a new computer system which was due to be installed in St George’s and every London hospital has been frozen after crashing in its first trial.

IT experts have stopped setting up the software, designed to give doctors access to patients’ records wherever they are in the country, after the system at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead repeatedly failed.

St George’s Hospital in Tooting was one of the next in line to be fitted with the system, but reports of it routinely crashing and losing patient information have led to some staff reverting to pen and paper.

This is the latest blow for the £12billion national project which is already four years behind schedule.

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And Ms Fletcher admitted no more hospitals would get the upgrade until next year."

This Labour Government's record on large IT projects has been appalling and the money wasted as a result has been disgusting. Of course the investigative journalism by the BBC has been negligible, they have been more interested in Caroline Spelman's nanny.


Thanks to Dr Grumble for the spot.