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Accenture quits its leading provider role in the NPfIT

 

Speculation about Accenture’s continuation with its 10-year contract as local service provider — a prime contractor role — for the Eastern and Northeast clusters of the National Programme came to an end on 28 September.

The termination followed several months of bad news about the progress of both Accenture and iSOFT, its main software supplier. The companies had fallen behind with implementation of the core patient-records system, Lorenzo, in both clusters and were losing substantial sums of money.

Accenture’s role as prime contractor in both clusters is being handed to CSC, which is already responsible for the Northwest and West Midlands cluster.

 

Full story in bjhc&im November 2006 (584 words)

 

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