The cost of £2.3 billion is £30 billion
Actors should never play with animals or children.
Politicians should never play with computers or money. Giving money to politicians is like giving whisky and car keys to a teenager. You know disaster will ensue.
In this case, the politicians have got very excited about computers and health. Hang on to your wallets. The cost of health is damaging to your wealth. Initially, they figured out that buying £2.3 billion of shiny new computers would transform drunken, chain-smoking, idle, fast food guzzling Glaswegians/Geordies/Cocknies/Welsh/Russian Counts (delete as appropriate) into healthy tofu eating joggers. That is as likley as getting a smile from a soviet babushka in a shop.
£2.3 billion was in 2002. Very old fashioned. Now the cost is officially £6.2 billion. And most independent estimates put it at £30 billion. This will get hidden by central government which will swing most of the costs onto local health authorities where no one can see it. So they will then cut the cleaning and nursing budgets (managers have to do something to justify their existence) and then there will be mass outbreaks of food poisoning, legionnaire's deisease and the rest of it becuase the entire NHS is going to be full of managers looking up porn on their £30 billion computer system. Nurses, doctors and cleaners are very last millennium.
This system has the snappy title NPfiT. For £30 billion, at least they could have thought up a decent name for it.
The cretins behind this are Accenture, who are qualified for this because they are also behind the cock ups at the DWP. They used to advertise "Technology, Outsourcing, Consulting and Innovation". After a while, they dropped innovation when it was pointed out to them that they were as innovative as a donkey's turd. Now they advertise "Performance. Delivered". Perhaps they should be more accurate and advertise "Crappy performance. Delivered Late. And at ten times the original estimate".
Politicians should never play with computers or money. Giving money to politicians is like giving whisky and car keys to a teenager. You know disaster will ensue.
In this case, the politicians have got very excited about computers and health. Hang on to your wallets. The cost of health is damaging to your wealth. Initially, they figured out that buying £2.3 billion of shiny new computers would transform drunken, chain-smoking, idle, fast food guzzling Glaswegians/Geordies/Cocknies/Welsh/Russian Counts (delete as appropriate) into healthy tofu eating joggers. That is as likley as getting a smile from a soviet babushka in a shop.
£2.3 billion was in 2002. Very old fashioned. Now the cost is officially £6.2 billion. And most independent estimates put it at £30 billion. This will get hidden by central government which will swing most of the costs onto local health authorities where no one can see it. So they will then cut the cleaning and nursing budgets (managers have to do something to justify their existence) and then there will be mass outbreaks of food poisoning, legionnaire's deisease and the rest of it becuase the entire NHS is going to be full of managers looking up porn on their £30 billion computer system. Nurses, doctors and cleaners are very last millennium.
This system has the snappy title NPfiT. For £30 billion, at least they could have thought up a decent name for it.
The cretins behind this are Accenture, who are qualified for this because they are also behind the cock ups at the DWP. They used to advertise "Technology, Outsourcing, Consulting and Innovation". After a while, they dropped innovation when it was pointed out to them that they were as innovative as a donkey's turd. Now they advertise "Performance. Delivered". Perhaps they should be more accurate and advertise "Crappy performance. Delivered Late. And at ten times the original estimate".
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