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Showing posts with label Mike O'Brien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike O'Brien. Show all posts

Friday, 19 June 2009

Now do you see why the NHS IT project is so over-budget?

The Register's readers have been going through MP's expenses and have spotted that:
"minister of state for health services, Mike O`Brien... oversees Connecting for Health and NHS IT ... made out a cheque for £60 in response to an invoice from Domain Registry Services. Earlier that year, as El Reg reported four months earlier, Domain Registry Services was a fraud - and O'Brien attempted to stop the cheque.

(O'Brien has a degree in history and politics and was a solicitor.)"


Also spotted was that
"Ben Bradshaw, the latest media minister, and the man behind the man behind Digital Britain. Bradshaw's staff were trying to "connect the wrong end of a Scart lead to a digital TV box", we discover. Bradshaw billed £20 on expenses for the TV engineer."


With such intellectual giants running the country's IT projects is it any wonder we are in the mess we are?