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Every position requires previous NHS experience so they will not take anybody with alternative - useful - up to date - professional - experience.
They won't use PRINCE2. They won't do gateway reviews properly. They refuse to be open and accountable.
Almost all project-related positions even demand a medical qualification. So, their project managers, programme managers, quality assurance people and so on are FAILED nurses and doctors.
No interest in professional IT people at all. No interest in professional project management staff at all.
Now think back to any of those "Top 10 Reasons Why Projects Fail" articles that appear everywhere. How many of the 10 can you tick already?
What is so sad is the utterly fantastic amount of money involved and the blind refusal of all involved to admit that there might actually be anything at all wrong.
How, just how do you convince those that won't see how to look?
They ignore the BCS. They ignore the Audit Office. They ignore Parliament. They ignore the Treasury.
What can you do?
Since it is public money - a significant proportion of the GNP - I wouldn't have any problem with the people at the top of NPfIT being stood against a wall and shot.
Bastards, bastards, lying, pocket-lining, public taxpayers' money thieving bastards the lot of them.
Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
There once was a contracting geezer.
Who applies for each job as he sees 'er.
When he saw one on Jobsite
It had gone before the night
Given to some git with a visa.
Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
Every position requires previous NHS experience so they will not take anybody with alternative - useful - up to date - professional - experience.
They won't use PRINCE2. They won't do gateway reviews properly. They refuse to be open and accountable.
Almost all project-related positions even demand a medical qualification. So, their project managers, programme managers, quality assurance people and so on are FAILED nurses and doctors.
No interest in professional IT people at all. No interest in professional project management staff at all.
Now think back to any of those "Top 10 Reasons Why Projects Fail" articles that appear everywhere. How many of the 10 can you tick already?
What is so sad is the utterly fantastic amount of money involved and the blind refusal of all involved to admit that there might actually be anything at all wrong.
How, just how do you convince those that won't see how to look?
They ignore the BCS. They ignore the Audit Office. They ignore Parliament. They ignore the Treasury.
What can you do?
Since it is public money - a significant proportion of the GNP - I wouldn't have any problem with the people at the top of NPfIT being stood against a wall and shot.
Bastards, bastards, lying, pocket-lining, public taxpayers' money thieving bastards the lot of them.
I've got NHS experience.
HTH.
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