Back Doing IT in the NHS

Ironically just when the Government has announced they're cutting the NHS's IT upgrade. Nothing about stopping financial penalties for any trust avoiding Lorenzo - so they're all paying for it and promptly ignoring it on the basis it's shit.

In the last PCT I worked I encountered a couple of amazingly skilled people who wouldn't survive in the private sector, in this one the previous person managed to monumentally fuck up. It really is amazing the difference in how different aspects of the NHS function, in skills, funding and general handling of IT.

And that's where the government has gone so horribly wrong in how it handles IT in the NHS, the insane fuckers have tried decentralized and centralize at the same time. Lorenzo's an expensive boondoggle, the spine and upgrade is a good idea done wrong - instead of having the same bloody software, how about just requiring the same data retention and use XML to transfer data between systems?