CSC: We are performing very well on NHS NPfIT

13.08.2011
CSC has insisted its work on the £11.7 billion Department of Health National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is going "very well", two weeks after ministers were advised by a powerful committee to .

The Public Accounts Committee advised health and Cabinet Office ministers to seriously reconsider the programme, and said it was so disappointed with CSC's work that it was . CSC has only delivered its main patient records system to three large trusts in nine years, and representatives have been .

"We are performing very well on it," CSC chief executive Mike Laphen told investors in a reference to the programme, as the company reported first-quarter net income up 28 percent to $183 million. "We think we have an outstanding product here."

But CSC for the first time gave a reserved outlook as to whether it would receive a new Memorandum of Understanding with the NHS on its £3 billion contract, following an ongoing review of the programme within the Cabinet Office. It is meeting government officials next month.

Laphen admitted that "there's still the political debate as to what to do with the programme", adding that "finalisation of an MoU remains dependent upon the completion of the UK government's review process".

Laphen admitted that CSC was unsure what would happen with its contract, saying: "I appreciate everybody would like to have more visibility into it. Frankly we would like to have a little more visibility into it as well."