Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

TECH SUPPORT
ONE of the three "key shifts" promised by health secretary Wes Streeting this month for the NHS is "analogue to digital". A "decade of underinvestment", he told a healthcare conference last week, had "left the NHS 15 years behind the private sector on technology"
It's not just underinvestment that has sc--wed up NHS IT, though. There was the
small matter of the last Labour government's disastrous €12bn National Programme for IT. launched in a similar spurt of techno-mania and handed over to four large and pisspoor IT companies including Fujitsu, of Post Office infamy (see our special
report System Failure in Eye 1179).
One of the worst performers was US company
CSC, which failed to deliver its part of the system but still had to be paid under huge contracts, leaving the health service, in the words of then chair of the public accounts committee Margaret Hodge, paying "a rotten company to supply hopeless software". In 2015 the company was fined $190m by US regulators for having used its NHS contract to fiddle its financial results.
CSC, now rebranded DXC Technology, is certainly still in the game and looking for more of the NHS tech action, judging by its schmoozing of one W Streeting, plus staff member, at Old Trafford for a Man Utd v Arsenal match at the end of last season. The value of the tickets plus hospitality was put at £1,000. Whether the executives and the then shadow health secretary discussed past performance between the grub and the footie banter is not known.