The UK's National Health Service's absolutely disastrous multi billion pound IT system rollout is facing yet more dramas, with a bunch of hospitals demanding compensation to cover the cost over having to maintain legacy systems due to the delayed implementation of the new system.
"Kingston Hospital has lost £500,000 before the new Care Records
Service is even installed. The hospital was due to get the new system
last month as the first step towards a huge electronic database.
But the plan was postponed after major problems at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, which is more than £7million out of pocket after the fiasco.
It means Kingston is still having to pay IT contractors to maintain old systems that should no longer be in use. At least one of the contractors is demanding a full year's payment of £380,000, regardless of when the new system is actually installed."
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