NHS records system delays cost CSC ?5m.

The article addresses issues on the penalty paid by CSC company to the National Health Service (NHS) trust for the delay of deployment of patient administration software under the National Program for information technology (IT) in Great Britain. According to CSC spokeswoman, information that is related to penalties either paid by or requested by CSC are confidential. She adds that they are on final stages of agreeing the roll-out of the new platform that will be available in 2008. Moreover, it points out that the current patient administration software is an administrative system which has limited clinical functionality.