I could just tell you that, despite it being 2017, NHS IT software is still terrible. I could tell you that the amount of time taken contending with this badly designed garbage is often more time than it takes to see the patient. But instead I'll tell you a story... Picture a damp Tuesday morning, sometime in early February. A balding pot bellied man in an ill fitted suit scurries across a road, dense with early morning traffic. Using some soggy documents as cover from the rain, he hurries towards the doors of a shiny PFI built hospital. He enters the building and finds his way to the Corporate Board Room, wherein several important hospital executives sit. "I'm terribly sorry I'm late", says the man (whose name is Baldo) dabbing hot dog mustard from his shirt with a damp contract agreement "car broke down" "No problem", replies the CEO of the hospital, "Have you got the presentation to show us?" Baldo withdraws an ageing IBM Th...