The decision to proceed with the troubled Lorenzo patient record systems has been heavily criticised by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee.

The Lorenzo scheme to be delivered by CSC, has seen repeated and significant delays, with millions spent without targets being met.

The criticism from the Public Accounts Committee came from a meeting between NHS executives and the committee with the revelation that the NHS is still set to pay nearly £600 million for the patient system.

The sum was driven by further payments including £100 million paid to CSC to renegotiate on new ‘key milestones’, which drew further condemnation from the parliamentary group, as CSC had failed to deliver on multiple objectives within the original program.

Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge called the CSC record system, “hopeless”.

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