What do you do to get the top IT job in the Country and a £20 billion contract?

[Mark R]

Richard Granger is one of the highest paid civil servants in charge of a £20billion project to transform the NHS's computer system.

Now we may finally have the explanation for all the problems.

His mother revealed that the man overseeing largest civilian IT project in the world failed his computer studies course while at Bristol University.

He took a year off after the debacle and was only allowed to resit the exam when 62-year-old Mary Granger appealed on his behalf.

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An interesting factoid for those following the ongoing IT fiasco in the UK's NHS.

Many hospitals are being forced to choose entire new IT infrastructure's, selected by regional committees and which may actually be unsuitable for their needs. E.g. teaching hospitals are finding that X-ray software they've given provides no way of saving anonymous images (e.g. for teaching purposes) - or rather, the software can do it - but the bulk contract states that the feature must be disabled for all installations.

Only a few months ago, the datacenter that hosted the key databases for over 100 major hospitals failed, and was down for nearly 1 week. Yet despite having all these records hosted in a single datacenter, there's still no way to transfer data electronically between 1 hospital's database and another.

And people wonder why the NHS is short of money....

 

[Genx87]

lmao sounds like your typical govt clusterfvck.

DB down for a week? Try that in the private sector and see how long you have a job. I bet this guy got a promotion for his troubles.

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: Genx87
lmao sounds like your typical govt clusterfvck.

DB down for a week? Try that in the private sector and see how long you have a job. I bet this guy got a promotion for his troubles.

You'd be out of a job before the database was back up in the private sector.

 

[palehorse]

So how is that socialized medicine thing workin' out for ya anyways?

The reason I ask is because we have some enlightened folk (read: socialists) in the US who think it would be just dandy if we could have the same problem....err, i mean, system here.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: palehorse74
So how IS that socialized medicine thing workin' out for ya anyways?

The reason I ask is because we have some enlightened folk (read: socialists) in the US who think it would be just dandy if we could have the same problem....err, i mean, system here.

Looks like they are removing options for the local population.

Mrs Granger is campaigning against a plan to change health services across West Yorkshire which could see the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary lose its main maternity unit.

Other services, including mental health and care for the elderly are moving to the Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax.

She said: 'I feel dismayed that I'm watching the hospital where I gave birth to my children, where Harold Wilson was born, being dismantled. Some of the money which goes into Connecting for Health could be saving my local services.'

Utopian indeed.