ID cards ‘as risky as NHS IT project’
Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly:
The government’s proposed ID card scheme is likely to be as risky as the NHS National Programme for IT, and could cost twice the estimated £5.4bn price tag, an independent review has concluded.
The review, the first to analyse the project based on the expected demand for ID card services, concludes that it is at “significant risk” of performance failure, which could delay the project and push up costs.
If ID cards are to deliver all the benefits claimed by the government, the infrastructure will need to process 3.4 million transactions a day, putting it on a par with the NHS IT programme for complexity, the report concludes.
The report was written by Capacitas – their press release is here.
