Dear Adrian,
Know any more about this?
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
> Sent: 14 August 1998 21:22
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Racal is SNAFU all over
>
>
> News from our local lab is that RACAL network is down nationwide, after
> a period of significant problems with it.
>
> RACAL for anyone who has forgotten it is a network the NHS decided
> would be the nationwide network for the NHS.
>
> It had a major crash when the badly thought out IoS Links systems were
> roled out onto it, just as the Patients not Paper initiative made them
> obsolete, and just before Caldicott criticised the amount of
> identifiable patient information being transmitted.
>
> Undaunted the NHS is pressing on with NHS Net which is another vastly
> expnesive boondoggle at the taxpayers' expense administered by the
> people and with the same management techniques as the Public Accounts
> Ctee recently crapped upon from a great height.
>
> NHSE response to such criticism? - delay publication of the NHS new
> IM&T strategy still further to distance it from such criticism, why one
> might ask would this be necessary if for instance the new strategy
> contained suggestions of a resolve toward a new way of working -
> listening to clinicians saying what they needed last year to make it
> possible to deliver care of the standard desired by all of us.
>
> It is hard to take this organisation seriously, although I am well
> aware that there are isolated nuggest of brilliance shining in the mire.
>
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