£12.5bn for the new It system. How much of it is spent on consultants? How much time is devoted to consulting with the end users? I'm all for a new spanking system where the doctors can someone's medical history on a screen. Prior to my fourth heart operation a month ago, I had to see a cardiac consultant. He read notes from a folder and had to make an assessment of what needed to be done just on these papers. He had never seen me or my case notes before that very moment we met. Had the case been available on screen, he would have been able to make a more confident decision without all the faffing about and page turning.