-pops- Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Electronic NHS?Look at this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Private Eye have been following this lot for the last couple of years and it is truly mind boggling. What is worse, fired up by how "successful" it was going to be (according to the consultants) they, TB & Co Ltd (very limited) put lots more stuff out to computerised PFI schemes.What a legacy. Can't go back (would loose face). Can't go forwards (scheme won't work and costs will ruin the country).As usual the only winners are the consultant. A royal flush. (So called because they made a convenience of him.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 They are totally incapable of getting anything right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Apparently a high court judge has just done the same with his scheme for nukeliar power. Quite unreasonably the judge thought the "consultation" with the populace was fixed, a stitch up. Most unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Just going back to the computerisation of the NHS and forgetting the political aspect, it seemed to me, a humble non-techie, that if there was one set-up ripe for computerisation it was (and is) the NHS. A massive organisation bedevilled by paper recording, with people moving around the country, falling ill and needing treatment, the NHS surely called for a powerful central computer system. The "choose & book" is a great idea and is working well where GP's are prepared to adapt and adopt it. I cannot pretend to know how to fix the system which the IT experts have tried to install, but I do believe that it is important that it is fixed. It will be worth it in the end.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I must agree with Thos on this one.My doctor's surgery happens to be well connected to the local hospital's IT systems. My doctor can download very quickly the details of my recent hospital checks. No waiting for notes to be either posted to him or for me to have to collect information.One of my friends recently moved house and changed doctors to another town. Within 24 hours the new doctor had his full medical records available on his computer. Despite much media hype - my experience has been that the system is working OK in our area. I feel that some of us are too easily misled by the media who have a political axe to grind - of whatever colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Choose and book is working well for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I think the big problem is the contracts are not given to people that know what they are doing, by people that know nothing about IT. So you end up with the contracts being given out to the company that can write it down in the most impressive way. (I was going to put it differently but it would have been censored) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I wonder if they have Acronis, and secure fault free phone lines?We had four days of no phone over Christmas and are currently into our fifth day in Feb with no 'phone. Broadband is working ("it only needs one wire"...BT man) but it is up and down like bride's nightie.One of the things that is worrying about the NHS scheme is that BT is one of the main contractors in it, as far as instalation and implimentation is concerned, and also owns the infrastructure. Still I suppose many of our NHS doctors and nurses are from the subcontinent, so they will be OK when they have to talk to the Technical Service help lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I wonder if they have Acronis, and secure fault free phone lines?We had four days of no phone over Christmas and are currently into our fifth day in Feb with no 'phone. Broadband is working ("it only needs one wire"...BT man) but it is up and down like bride's nightie.One of the things that is worrying about the NHS scheme is that BT is one of the main contractors in it, as far as instalation and implimentation is concerned, and also owns the infrastructure. Still I suppose many of our NHS doctors and nurses are from the subcontinent, so they will be OK when they have to talk to the Technical Service help lines.TOO TRUE. They will understand the accents better than I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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