Ministers are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme.
The Coalition will today announce it is putting a halt to years of scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money on a system that never worked.
It will cut its losses and ‘urgently’ dismantle the National Programme for IT – a monument to Whitehall folly during Labour’s 13 years in power.
The biggest civilian IT project of its kind in the world, it has already squandered at least £12.7billion. Some estimates put the cost far higher.
Analysts say the sum would have paid the salaries of more than 60,000 nurses for a decade.
The announcement follows strong criticism from MPs who accused Labour of wasting a further £500million of taxpayers’ money on a failed bid to set up a network of regional Fire Brigade control centres.
Source: £12bn NHS computer system is scrapped... and it's all YOUR money that Labour poured down the drain | Mail Online
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£12 bln - that's half the cost of HS2 railway.
The Coalition will today announce it is putting a halt to years of scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money on a system that never worked.
It will cut its losses and ‘urgently’ dismantle the National Programme for IT – a monument to Whitehall folly during Labour’s 13 years in power.
The biggest civilian IT project of its kind in the world, it has already squandered at least £12.7billion. Some estimates put the cost far higher.
Analysts say the sum would have paid the salaries of more than 60,000 nurses for a decade.
The announcement follows strong criticism from MPs who accused Labour of wasting a further £500million of taxpayers’ money on a failed bid to set up a network of regional Fire Brigade control centres.
Source: £12bn NHS computer system is scrapped... and it's all YOUR money that Labour poured down the drain | Mail Online
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£12 bln - that's half the cost of HS2 railway.
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