UK Health Service Fears Huge Legal Fight Over Unwanted Contracts

DMandPenfold writes "The Department of Health is concerned that Fujitsu, CSC and BT would team up against it in a multibillion pound legal fight, should it decide to scrap the disastrous NHS National Program for IT. Fujitsu walked away from a £709 million contract in 2008, and remains locked in legal wrangling with the government over claims for the majority of the value. Today, MPs urged the government to seriously consider abandoning the program and therefore to consider terminating the remaining CSC and BT contracts, worth £3 billion and £1 billion respectively."

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Re:Socialism Sucks

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I'm sorry, but you particular view of the world breaks when people need to work together that have no reason to work together other than that 'The People' would like them to.

Localized private companies don't want to invest money in being able to exchange data with other localized private companies (possibly in a completely different country), since they don't have any use for such a system.

And if you get hit somewhere where the local company doesn't have coverage, and you unfortunately die because you're hyper allergic to penicilline.. Well. That's not their problem, now is it?

That's what you have government for, to have some sort of control over all the little fiefdoms. Although I agree with you that what government tends to do nowadays is far overreaching.