NHS IT glitches force six-month wait!
The new 12.7bn project to upgrade the NHS computers has believed to have had an effect on the computers and caused glitches on the system. This has resulted in a six-month wait for patients. The Department of Health has said that patients shouldn’t wait more than eighteen-weeks, unless they choose to.
The group which brought about this new technology, Barts and the London NHS Trust have a backlog of twenty-thousand patient records on its 18-week waiting list. Many of the twenty-thousand are suspected to be duplicates, but a good fourteen-thousand are believed to be genuine patient records.