CSC has told TechWeek Europe that it may axe up to 500 staff following the botched NHS National Programme for IT (NpfIT) project.

“We can confirm that, regrettably, we have recently started a formal 90-day consultation process in the UK which could reduce the number of people working on our NHS account by up to a maximum of 500 people,” CSC told TechWeek Europe in an emailed statement. “This action is necessary mainly because we have now substantially completed many key development activities with NHS, and are now moving away from a focus on development work,” it said.