tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694764488430015508.post6987069589731648815..comments2023-10-28T05:31:29.714-07:00Comments on Northern Doc: NHS Choices value for, or burning our, money?Northern Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02204011079939445650noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694764488430015508.post-86144399889524091822010-02-02T06:48:43.807-08:002010-02-02T06:48:43.807-08:00sorry - here http://puffbox.com/2010/01/19/nhs-cho...sorry - here http://puffbox.com/2010/01/19/nhs-choices-budget/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05644557614911060675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694764488430015508.post-14087673052770214062010-02-02T06:48:21.782-08:002010-02-02T06:48:21.782-08:00The cost is all relative. The NHS budget is over ...The cost is all relative. The NHS budget is over £100bn. It needs a good website. How much is the right amount to spend, do you think?<br /><br />There's a similar article to yours here. One of the comments is from the Director of Strategy for NHS choices. Interesting readingUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05644557614911060675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6694764488430015508.post-64755148056874978692010-01-31T07:09:29.168-08:002010-01-31T07:09:29.168-08:0015 years ago (when I was appointed - on the recomm...15 years ago (when I was appointed - on the recommendation of the US Army Surgeon General's Office - to be in charge of the Saudi National Guard's Health Computing & Information) I needed to produce a national IT strategy that was (eventually) agreed by all concerned - including the US Congress who were funding it following the First Gulf War. <br /><br />It was generally recognised that while the NHS then asked the right questions it always failed to come up with the right answers. The NHS was seen internationally as a warning of how not to succeed in harnessing the potential of IT in health care. If anything the situation is even worse now. <br /><br />It is not that the intentions are wrong its just that they bear no relationship to any ability to deliver. The reality requires those with experience to point out the real costs and difficulties involved in answering the questions that are posed.<br /><br />However as in other areas of health policy NuLabour - and their local storm trooper managers - have proved themselves unable to countenance anything that is not based upon their own faith (in voodoo economics, ersatz markets, "modernisation" for its own sake, "choice" that few really want).<br /><br />This is not just a case of burning money, as you suggest, which could be regarded as just waste and a form of "innocent fraud". What has happened is tantamount to both corporate fraud and malfeasance - lining the pockets of those who contribute funds to support career politicians of both major parties. It is anti social behaviour of the worst kind.<br /><br />Perhaps post Chilcott we should call for a public enquiry into these persistent "crimes against society".Prisoner of Hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12101614242785360125noreply@blogger.com