wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Stop farming NHS IT out to contract. Build the capability within the NHS to build the system it needs, not what some consultancy thinks it needs. It’ll be better and more secure.
Public Money, Public Code.
Unfortunately, there are a great many directors and senior level administrators who aren’t up to the challenge of managing competent technical teams or projects, hence they prefer to go the easy route and just pay someone else for the headache.
Three. Hundred. Million. Pounds.
Government IT spending is absolutely insane. That’s 100 people on £100k a year for 30 years. How does this get through oversight? And then they deliver a shitty system and there’s no comeback?
Try the £10b that was spent on the failed NHS IT project that ran from 2002-2011
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It’s a well-known tune.
“How much will it cost to do this internally?” ‘£50 million, and we’d need to commit to staff to maintain it. But then we’d own it, and it would be about as financially efficient as possible’ “OK, this big company says they can do a basic version for £49m, and with the first year of support for free” ‘That won’t even do half of it. And they’ll just ramp the cost up later’ “No, this is a good plan, we should use the free market to efficiently do these things”
The project then becomes £330m once the private company quotes up including all the essentials that weren’t in the original quote, but the wheels are already turning, so it happens