[arihelgason]

This rings true with my experience.

I met a senior NHS physician who built a very useful and simple mobile information service to improve access to certain services. My understanding was that he funded it himself with help from sponsors and had to do it entirely outside the NHS system.

It probably cost 1/10th of what it would have cost if it had been done through the NHS.

Not to mention that NHS computers are still running IE6 and heavily locked down, making it a poor development environment. Tim Kelsey can encourage NHS staff to code, but the infrastructure to do anything meaningful with that inside the system isn't there.

This is the service: http://sxt.org.uk