Abandoned UK National Health Service IT System Has Cost $16bn... So Far 220
dryriver writes with news of yet another major software project gone awry. From the article: "An abandoned National Health Service (NHS) patient record system has so far cost the taxpayer nearly £10bn, with the final bill for what would have been the world's largest civilian computer system likely to be several hundreds of millions of pounds higher, according a highly critical report from parliament's public spending watchdog. MPs on the public accounts committee said final costs are expected to increase beyond the existing £9.8bn because new regional IT systems for the NHS, introduced to replace the National Programme for IT, are also being poorly managed and are riven with their own contractual wrangles. When the original plan was abandoned the total bill was expected to be £6.4bn."
"Dayum!" (Score:5, Funny)
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much. I imagine even the people over at SAP are going, "Dayum!"
This is what Ronald Regan protected us from (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God that here in the U.S. we're protected from this kind of system. Sure, getting sick here without insurance can bankrupt you, drive you into lifelong debt, etc. But at least we don't have to put up with any red tape in our health care system!
America, America, God shed his grace on theeeeee!
IT employees rejoice (Score:4, Funny)
Usually when I hear about a doomed IT project, I share my optimism with other colleagues:
this means that we still have plenty of IT job offers guaranteed by these failing managements.
Re:"Dayum!" (Score:2, Funny)
You forgot to factor in health insurance costs. From what I hear, they're quite high due to some boondoggle computerized records project.