North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal Deloitte, Atos, and Phoenix Software are among the 29 organisations who've been picked to provide a whopping £200m worth of IT consultancy services to the National Health Service in the north of England. With a name like your second-favourite indie band, the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) has …
Do you mean like NHS Digital? Or NHSx?
The problem is the NHS doesn't know how to do this. It's not run by people who can see the future they want and know how to get there.
Quite a lot of the power is at the clinician level, who don't have much of a clue about possibilities, and focus on the wrong things. It's taken a global pandemic for them to realise that Zoom is a pretty good way to deliver healthcare. Not exactly who should be deciding the fate of a giant chunk of taxpayer money.
Turkeys don't vote for Christmas. Most "NHS GP's" are privately owned by the GPs, with a tonne of debt, expensive admin teams and a several million pound building.
They had absolutely no incentive to compete with home-based GP video services at a fraction of the cost (typically suitable for 80% of gp visits).
Things changed when the GPs realised no patient visits = no NHS money. Video conferencing now incentivised.
"Zoom is a pretty good way to deliver healthcare"
Really?
Overkill in one sense: a telephone call is sufficient to discuss symptoms.
Insufficient if a physical examination is needed.
The gap between the two cases seems to me to be vanishingly small. In fact, the only effect I can see would be to rule out health case for those patients not equipped for it
Part of the problem is there isn’t a single NHS, there are lots of little NHSs that do different things, and what tends to happen is political types like to reorganise these on a frequent basis- centralise some stuff, push other stuff apart, wait a few years, rinse and repeat ad infinitum. IT staff are then pushed back and forth between various trusts who can’t give them answers on how long they have a job as they don’t know if they’ll employ them, outsource them or just bring in a contractor. What happens is, lthis goes on until it happens once too often for the long suffering IT staff who go off and find a job in the real world. In my experience, it meant I got to leave the equipment store of the local hospital which was also my office...
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