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1 Oct 2014

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Another chalk and cheese IT partnership

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?

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/City-council-NHS-set-new-private-company/story-23026190-detail/story.html

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  1. The IT synergies between three local councils (who will have a similar set of systems and requirements e.g. council tax, planning, housing, benefits, procurement without track and trace, committees) are likely to be far greater than those between a local council and an NHS organisation (e.g. council tax vs. ??, medicine prescribing vs. ???, procurement with track and trace etc.).

    So cost savings for the Plymouth / NHS deal seem to me to be far less likely that in the EDDC / Exeter / Teignbridge deal.

    So, just why did Plymouth pull out of a synergistic EDDC / Exeter / Teignmouth shared services deal to make a non-synergistic partnership with an NHS organisation????

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