criminal fraud

iSoft

3 hospitals rolled out in 7 years

"absolute chaos" at those hospitals

version 1 product

not a product at all

crooks

"open cheque"

"prototypes sold as full products"

not millions -- BILLIONS

CSC and Lorenzo

£20m a site ...

"how can you justify that when a lot of those solution are off the shelf solutions"

response "moving from monolithic to modular systems"

just like in 1990 -- the initial progenitors of iSoft fraud

ongoing

such is the state of IT in this country the NHS has no alternative but to deal
with these crooks

This is absolutely typical of the UK. When something productive needs to be
done, it attracts flocks of be-suited lunatics who show each other Power
Point presentations until nearly all the assigned budget has been absorbed
on their worthless shiny-trousered asses. Then one ill-educated paddy armed
with a shovel is is then persecuted and humiliated for not being able to
complete the task according to the spreadsheet. Of course, in the public
sector the funds are potentially endless, so it never gets past the 'suit
stage'