Re: Warning of major NHS IT overspend

[Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Owen Lewis wrote:
> And where the NHS consumes such a large part of the nation's wealth, is
> data-mining such a bad idea? Leaving such a wealth of information untapped
> might seem to verge on the irresponsible.
Depends on a number of factors - not least, if the government sells the 
results of such data mining to pharmaceutical companies - where does the 
money go to? I would *like* to hear "why of course, back to the NHS" but 
suspect the answer will fall into either the "free money!" bucket or 
"lottery" bucket (not It Could Be You, but the fact that government 
funding was often withdrawn in expectation of lottery funding, leaving 
more "free money!" for the government to allocate elsewhere.)