IT suppliers fear new GP consortia will 'create difficulties' Suppliers of IT systems to England's NHS may face difficulties in the market if the planned reorganisation causes big differences in requirements, according to the manager responsible for health at one of the largest vendors of government IT. Graham Lay, vice president for government, healthcare and transport at HP Enterprise …
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and we will work with David Smith (the crown representative working with the company) to help government get a better service from us
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What will probably happen next is Government appointee will say the system is doing exactly what is required of it but GPs will say it does nothing that GPs require of it?
this is a technology that only needs getting right once, in one place, for all time, and that's it. How many times will we let marketing pond life convince us that the wheel needs to be locally re-invented again, and again, and again? And that it *naturally* gets more, and more difficult and expensive?
GP commissioning won't make a hoot of difference to the strategy free zone that NHSIT has been for some decades now.
Still - at least when the GPC model utterly fails and we get to where we are really aimed at the IT industry will have some nice insurance companies and accountancy consultants to deal with - should be a bit more comfy for them.
It business, baby. Come visit the real UK world.
If a GP Consortium can get a better local service than going to a corporates or corporate representative then it's a wake up call. Get off your arse and start listening to users. Not 'customers' who, in this case are little more than corporate captives.
Really, who does this git think he is, f*****g Moses?!!
I think the HP is saying "the General Practitioners are all independent businesses and they might not follow our official hype line. This will be injurious to our profit."
Sorry matey it is even worse. The GPs are independent partnerships whose primary aim is the increase of their own profit. Central diktats about NHS computer systems may be a comfort factor to the large suppliers, but the GPs will spend the money as they see fit.
Any Volvo salespeople on-line? My GP needs an upgrade.
On the one hand, we have a government that's quite fond of constructing massive bonfires of fifty-pound notes. On the other hand, we have the company that brought us Non-Mission-Capable Internet.
When both parties are engaging in a concerted dumb-off, who's the bad guy? We all know who will pick up the tab, of course.
Since there's no Mark Hurd devil avatar, the badgers win by default.
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