[Craigangus]

Using data smartly in the NHS is key to making it more effiecient.

I witnessed £1 million wasted on writing a piece of software that potentially could have saved the NHS millions but due to bad management and politics was eventually cancelled.

This despite the fact that a NHS board manager had already created a similair system, himself through self taught coding in an Access database

[eckyptang]

Agree about using data but the main problem is trust autonomy which allows them to develop incompatible systems. For example every damn A&E department in the country has a different software platform or configuration. There should just be one!

Oh that and NHS management, who should just be put up against a wall and shot. If you divide it across all trusts, each directorate member has pissed about 20 million of cash out of the window on stuff that hasn't delivered.