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Taxpayers could be hit with a bill for up to £700m after the government reportedly lost a legal battle with Fujitsu over a failed NHS IT system.
The case was heard in secret but the arbitrator is thought to have found in favour of the Japanese IT giant.
Legal arguments are now thought to be continuing over the size of the damages the company will receive.
Fujitsu and the Cabinet Office both refused to comment, after the story appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
The Fujitsu Connecting for Health contract was part of the £12bn NHS national programme for IT, large parts of which have had to be abandoned at a cost estimated by the National Audit Office to be £2.7bn.
Fujitsu won the contract - to digitise patient records in the South of England - in 2002 but it was terminated in 2008, after disputes over changes, including a new system for electronically displaying and storing X-rays.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464002
The case was heard in secret but the arbitrator is thought to have found in favour of the Japanese IT giant.
Legal arguments are now thought to be continuing over the size of the damages the company will receive.
Fujitsu and the Cabinet Office both refused to comment, after the story appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
The Fujitsu Connecting for Health contract was part of the £12bn NHS national programme for IT, large parts of which have had to be abandoned at a cost estimated by the National Audit Office to be £2.7bn.
Fujitsu won the contract - to digitise patient records in the South of England - in 2002 but it was terminated in 2008, after disputes over changes, including a new system for electronically displaying and storing X-rays.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464002