A project to replace a system that dishes out $12 billion of health payments every year is in trouble.
Health NZ / Te Whatu Ora’s health sector agreements and payments system was rated three years ago in danger of complete failure. But three years on it has spent $85m only for the replacement project to appear to be “unachievable”, a newly released Treasury paper prepared in March shows.
By then, the $116m budget approved in 2021 had already expanded to $140m, with officials warning: “Successful delivery (to the approvals in the last Cabinet approved business case) appears to be unachievable. There are major issues which at this stage do not appear to be manageable or resolvable.
Think how many nurses or doctors that money could have hired!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
2 comments:
If matters accountable are so bad under established procedures, Imagine how the situation would likely be if maori ran IT provision.
wtf are these incompetents doing? This sounds like the pathetic Datacom project to create a payroll system for FENZ, which cost over 23 million before delivering nothing and being canned. How can this still happen - it's not actually that hard to write good software, but I guess you need to employ competent people not the usual PMC numpties/mates.
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