<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Unfortunately there are just too many vested interests in governmental IT - the senior politicians who received cars, holidays and even houses as gifts from Microsoft have got away with feathering their own nests at the expense of effective technology. This is commonplace in the upper reaches of government so there's no incentive to change. The "consultancies" and other "experts" also have vested interests in IT being an almighty cock-up.<div><br></div><div>There's nothing that we can do about it!</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Marcus Harriott via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> </div><div>Date: 23/06/2018 10:46 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> </div><div>Cc: Marcus Harriott <marcusjharriott@yahoo.co.uk> </div><div>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] IT for the NHS and General Practices </div><div><br></div></div>Im not an IT expert but the NHS uses the same system as the MoD. Which is awful beyond all belief.<br><br>There is too much invested infrastructure, too few people in govt who have any idea how to run IT and too many public servants with their snouts in the trough to ever hope for a change.<br><br>Govt view is generally to use 'more resource' - that means spend more of YOUR money.<br><br>But it never gets fixed.<br><br>My advice to you is give up - you will only get stressed if you ever got the chance to be involved in Govt IT<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------<br>On Sat, 23/6/18, Chris Bell via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br><br> Subject: [GLLUG] IT for the NHS and General Practices<br> To: "The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk><br> Cc: "Chris Bell" <chrisbell@chrisbell.org.uk><br> Date: Saturday, 23 June, 2018, 10:03<br> <br> Hello,<br> There appears to be an attempt to split<br> the NHS into smaller isolated areas <br> and to encourage more effective choice<br> from local GP's, who may have views on <br> the facilities they require but may not<br> be experts in IT. Is there any kind of <br> coordinated effort to introduce a<br> world-wide, or at least UK-wide, common <br> standard system for both the NHS and<br> independent General Practices? Is there <br> already any common standard system or<br> framework that can be used without the <br> need for too much individual<br> development? I do not have much hope that our <br> government is any more IT competent,<br> and too many people appear to have their <br> heads in the clouds, assuming that IT<br> just happens in no time at all.<br> Prompted by the latest newsletter from<br> my local GP, a quick Google search <br> threw up plenty of management-speak<br> waffle on the need to share data. I did a <br> quick search on the Debian website for<br> the description "medical" and found <br> items such as GNUmed. I have already<br> used packages found on Debian to view my <br> personal collection of CT, MRI, and<br> Ultrasound scans.<br> <br> -- <br> Chris Bell<br> Website http://chrisbell.org.uk<br> <br> -- <br> GLLUG mailing list<br> GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk<br> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug<br><br>-- <br>GLLUG mailing list<br>GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug</body></html>