| NHS Connecting for
Health — the DoH agency in charge of the policy for, and implementation
of, England’s National Programme for IT in the NHS — has issued an icy
rebuttal to claims by local-service provider Accenture that delays by
its subcontractor iSOFT in developing the core-software solution Lorenzo
were responsible for recent losses suffered by the firm.
Instead, CfH shifted the blame onto Accenture for failing to manage
its suppliers properly, and contrasted the LSP’s performance to date
unfavourably with that of another, CSC, which also manages iSOFT as a
core-software supplier.
Connecting for Health stated that it has demanded sackings of key
project managers within Accenture to rectify the firm’s failures.
Full story in bjhc&im May 2006 (587words)
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