IT group's NHS contract bid under fire - Financial Times

The biggest contractor to the troubled NHS IT programme was accused on Tuesday of seeking a one-third reduction in the cost of its contract in return for doing two-thirds less work.

The allegation, to the Financial Times, by Margaret Hodge, chairman of the public accounts committee, followed a proposal from the Computer Sciences Corporation, that its contract should be reduced by £264m in return for slashing the number of NHS trusts that would receive new systems from 220 to 80.