A bit delayed and ever so slightly over-budget: Another government IT triumphAgain, and again, and again. Well today we have finally found one civil servant is honourable enough to resign after a massive cock up.
We now know that the government is fundamentally incapable of managing data securely and safely.
What will this mean for ID cards? What about Connecting for Health and the privacy of your medical records or MTAS and its great computer security?
This government’s reputation for competence crumbles quicker than Northern Rock’s solvency.
Would you still trust this lot with anything?
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Gray has resigned after cock up that could affect 25 million, but as yet to our knowledge has not affected anyone. ie 40% of the population, and to date no real known cost.
MMC/MTAS in 2007 (and the debacle of thousands of juniors applying for single posts in 2005) have already affected thousands of junior doctors directly, and cost the taxpayer upwards of £4 billion if those lost to the NHS cannot be recovered. The potential to affect all the population too!
The man directly responsible was Donaldson. When will he show some semblance of honour and resign?
u aint seen nothing
wait till u see the eBorders programme and ID cards systems both fail multi billion big style
u heard it here 1st
anonymous
Have you got a specific story there?
Or just a doleful, though likely accurate, anticipation?
im aherm tangentally professionally involved and took a little look at decided to steer a big diversion away so obvious is it to me
Catch what the DoH Director of IT said to Parliament's Home Affairs Commitee here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
uk_news/politics/7103667.stm
Minutes of the session should be out next week.
Dr Rant,
Please do not associate the Sinclair Spectrum with government IT stupidity. Sinclair was badly run and it died because of a stubborn lack of interest in making machines that could compete, but it didn't -
1) Take billions in public money
2) Produce nothing for (1)
3) Kill patients in the NHS
4) Make ZanuLabour cronies richer.
etc.
Yours faithfully
Disgusted of Chiswick
"Would you still trust this lot with anything?"
With the cavalier attitude many doctors have to the securing patient records in Gladstone files, their willingness to share passwords / smartcards; the biggest risk to patient privacy isn't the new systems, rather the attitudes of the people who use them. Just like at HMRC.
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