"We filled the vacancy the next day"
NCC urges government pragmatism on IT spending
The coalition government should be pragmatic when evaluating IT spending and shift its focus from cutting costs to increasing efficiency, the National Computing Centre (NCC) has said.
A report published by GS1 UK revealed that 78 per cent of hospital nurses and doctors saw real-time electronic patient records as a measure that would boost the performance of the NHS, highlighting the ability of IT to increase the efficacy of major organisations.
Michael Dean, head of marketing at IT organisation the NCC, said: "The new government should be cautious, but they should also learn from previous experiences.
"Billions of pounds of cash has gone into the NHS IT programme with the objective of creating a working electronic patient record system, yet the project has suffered major problems and is not fully operational."
He urged the government to learn from the mistakes of such projects and ensure other initiatives are managed more shrewdly in future.
A total of 35 major government IT outsourcing contracts are potentially at risk of renegotiation in the coming years, technology analyst Ovum recently warned.
Posted by Adam Miller
A report published by GS1 UK revealed that 78 per cent of hospital nurses and doctors saw real-time electronic patient records as a measure that would boost the performance of the NHS, highlighting the ability of IT to increase the efficacy of major organisations.
Michael Dean, head of marketing at IT organisation the NCC, said: "The new government should be cautious, but they should also learn from previous experiences.
"Billions of pounds of cash has gone into the NHS IT programme with the objective of creating a working electronic patient record system, yet the project has suffered major problems and is not fully operational."
He urged the government to learn from the mistakes of such projects and ensure other initiatives are managed more shrewdly in future.
A total of 35 major government IT outsourcing contracts are potentially at risk of renegotiation in the coming years, technology analyst Ovum recently warned.
Posted by Adam Miller