Getting ready to buy more secret-source systems from dodgy providers?
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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No. Just Oracle crap.
It should be pointed out that NHS England is a management layer and is in the process of being dismantled so that NHS services in England are managed directly by the NHS and not a third layer between hospitals/doctors and the Department of health.
they do directly comission some highly specialised services.
Nothing at all to do with certain US companies including MicroSLOP and others. " Please look away, we can assure you that this is complicated policy that you won't understand "
What exactly was formerly open source? I think the NHS has more to gain from open source than almost anyone else I can think of. Incidentally they are also sitting on possibly the most valuable dataset on the planet.
https://github.com/orgs/NHSDigital/repositories. The UK gov has a lot of open source code repos, which is pretty neat.
Surely soon to be had?