Always just over the horizon
A very quick question for Richard Granger (Where is he? Where also is the rest of that self-serving article in CIO magazine that came out a couple of months ago? ).
Given the posturing about the NPfIT procurement exercise & how successful it was, perhaps he would like to tell us why we are now told that Lorenzo will be with us in 2011. I suppose the mass extinction of numerous innovative local software projects was worth the wait. Perhaps he would also like to explain why SHAs are having to migrate GP systems to those provided by the LSP just to avoid penalties. GP Systems of Choice anyone?
The Penfield strategy is the latest in a long-line of plans for delivering Lorenzo that stretch back to 2004, none of which has so far resulted in completion or delivery of the next generation software. One of the procurement principles behind the NHS IT programme, led by NHS Connecting for Health, was claimed to be only buying proven product that had been shown to work after exhaustive expert testing.
Would incompetent contracting be an explanation?
And I am sorry to see the same state of affairs in the US as exists here though there appear to be a few bright spots. Do we have to suffer the same poorly designed crap that passes for software?