damning audit report, page-2

from http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/05/highlights-of-national-audit-o.html

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On CSC, "Lorenzo" and why it's late [originally promised in 2004]

(Par 2.10, page 22) The development of Lorenzo has taken much longer than originally planned, with the delays attributed in part to an underestimation by all parties of the scale and complexity involved in building a new system from scratch.

(par 2.11, page 22) In the light of concerns about progress in developing Lorenzo, in summer 2007 NHS Connecting for Health and CSC jointly commissioned two reviews of the delivery arrangements. The first review, by experts in IT development, identified, among other things, a lack of clarity around responsibilities and shortcomings in programme management and end-to-end delivery arrangements within CSC and iSOFT. It concluded that further delays could be expected. The second review, by a large-scale systems integrator, reached similar conclusions, in particular noting that the then current plan for development and deployment was behind schedule and in any event not feasible, and recommended that the phased strategy that NHS Connecting for Health had suggested should be adopted.

(par 2.12 -2.13, page 23) ... the planned two releases of Lorenzo have been broken down into four smaller releases. Nevertheless there remains considerable uncertainty over the delivery schedule for Lorenzo.

Par 2.14, page 23) While the most deployments have been made by CSC in the North, Midlands and East, these are of the iPM system, an existing system upgraded to meet the requirements of the Programme, which offers limited clinical functionality. iPM is an interim solution .."


This report was commissioned 12 months ago, hopefully a lot has changed since.

I was hoping todays movement was more of a consolidation but it seems some people have indeed taken a pesimistic view on Lorenzo and NPfIT.

IMO it is a good opportunity to buy as Gary Cohen did say it is now not a matter of "if Lorezo would be released" but just a matter of "WHEN" and it is within months.