>From: Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]>
>> Look at the bundle of documents your practice manager
>> probably received from Mike Edwards (Head of Direct Marketing and
Print
>> Services) on or around 9.11.98. HSC 171(Guidance on HA and PCG
>> allocations), 167(Health Improvement Programmes) and "Partnership in
>> Action: New oportunities for joint working between Health and Social
>> Services - a discussion document" ought to be of interest.. pity
you'vve
>> missed the opportunity to provide any input to the discussion - it
closed
>> on 31.10.98!
I took note of this, mainly WRT to the 16 Sept publication on Viagra
advice which was included in that bundle.
I rained vituperation first upon the man whose signature it went out
over, and next turned my suspicions to my local HA, suspecting that
a temporary flaw in their cashflow predictions had led to them
delaying photocopying it for a couple of months...
But it appears that the distribution was both direct from the
centre, and the responsibility of Mike Edwards.
So, if somebody could lean over and tap his shoulder and ask him why
a document giving guidance on something which happened on Sept 9th
and which was published on Sept 16th only reached us on (mine was
14th nov but take Mary's date of the 9th)
and why the document upon which HMG was apparently earnestly
desiring my comment ("Partnership in Action: New oportunities for joint
working between Health and Social Services - a discussion
document")
only arrived 2 weeks after the closing date for receipt of those
comments, I would be obliged.
And if the excuse doesn't convince us it was a temporary disaster
(paper shortage in Whitehall? Ink export embargo finally biting
home?) then could we please dismantle the failed atom distribution
system,
recycle the costs into getting NHS Net running as an ISP and conveying
the bits from open.gov via permanently running networks to an NHS
funded PC on every clinical desktop, and every practice's managers'
desks as well.
I strongly suspect that the savings would be sufficient.
Gutenberg is dead, his technology has reached its limit short of our
requirements.
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