Plymouth City Council is now joining its IT services with the NHS Devon-wide groupings.
Originally they had planned to join up with EDDC and Teignbridge (not sure about Exeter)
Question: why did Plymouth pull out of the council-wide partnership and
Question: what synergy is there between council and NHS IT systems (given the national health service IT fiasco in the last few years.
Can all these partnerships REALLY save money?
Recall EDDC, Exeter and Teignbridge are about to share IT services. Although they currently do not have a public/private partnership in mind it could happen but the pitfalls ennumerated here could happen to any joint arrangement where “transparency” becomes an issue:
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Wain Homes appears not to care.
Where majority party MPs lead, EDDC’s majority party usually follows:
‘To introduce measures which undermine transparency is foolish and perverse at a time when we are looking for increased transparency,’ he added.
‘This means that MPs will be able to string out the thing for as long as they like rather than everyone knowing there is an issue to be investigated.
‘This is a retrograde step when you consider that it was a lack of transparency which led to the expenses scandal in the first place.’
Oh, wait: the MPs are following EDDC on this one – EDDZc got in first with Browngate and the East Devon Business Forum where deathly silence prevails.
It will be interesting to see what they do with Browngate 2 – where the disgraced ex-councillor will make much more money than it costs for a duckhouse if things go his way – again!
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