it's still retarded.
Why does a MASSIVE organisation like the NHS not get *below* list price? The quantity they must consume would qualify for a healthy discount?

I know the answer, it's the trust system which are run by twunty people from a backward institution who know fuck all about nothing.

I spoke to a doctor last week who using a small charity has developed a software app for GUM clinics in London. It's really really impressive and only cost £60k. It's better than anything I've ever seen the NHS use and cost a fraction of what CRAPITA or some other such company would charge. It's fast, works on all devices with a browser and is genuinely useful. More people like that please.
(skgorsky, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 10:21, 2 replies)

Yup.
We had a reporting system that, having been developed in-house, could be customised to work exactly to our needs. Rather than invest in the single member of staff who developed it, the PCT threw money at some SHA sourced shite (that didn't do what we wanted, and never would), before the company behind that bailed out, after which we threw more money at an externally provided data warehouse (which we don't use), before moving on to a different, SHA sourced, system. Our in-house system was supposed to have been switched off, two years ago, but has instead been forced to limp on, without the support of the person who wrote it.
Hopeless.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 10:52, closed)

because the quantity they consume
equals a fucking huge quantity of support issues numbnuts. PC's aren't tins of dog food.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 13:30, closed)

Are you trolling? I think your trolling.

If not I'll explain. Base unit cost + support cost = total.

Base unit cost should below what a normal consumer can get it for due to quantity. Support is on top.
(skgorsky, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 13:53, closed)