Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
Details of the full transition costs in Care Quality Commission minutes revealed April’s merger between the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and Mental Health Act Commission has led to more than £23m being spent on leases for empty offices and more than £700,000 on payouts to departing executives.
They also show it has inherited an IT system, valued at £17.5m, with “a number of major malfunctions”. Work on correcting defects cost £2.3m.
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Tags: Care Quality Commission, NHS IT
