Instead of wasting hundreds of millions on grandiose IT projects, UCL hospital trust has taken the smart route and not re-invented a wonky wheel and bought a proven ready made product. I don’t understand why this is not the standard at ALL UK hospitals. Instead the NHS allows each hospital trust to SQUANDER taxpayer money re-inventing the wheel, where I see mediocre re-invented versions of MyCare/MyCharts at each Trust. Not seen anything better. This is why UK NHS is so short of money, - it wastes and squanders so much. UCLHospital Trust has the smarts to choose this system, why don’t other Trusts follow? Oh yes, because they have a bottomless taxpayer funding and sky high egos wanting to be “original mediocre” instead of following UCLH’s example. In privatised medicine this kind of unaccountable colossal waste would never happen. One hospital Trust would pilot it, and if successful, all hospitals would be required to follow it, and if unsuccessful all hospitals would avoid it. Unfortunately the NHS lacks national coordination when it comes to that.It’s a pity the makers of MyCharts are not marketing their app to the other Trusts, perhaps they simply don’t know it exists, and the cost /benefit of running it vs their own half baked version or other rival system which operates in a silo.
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