How to Waste 10 Billion Pounds in 90 Minutes, Taxpayers Hate It!

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distortion park: Apr 25, 2011

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/npfit-mpp-2014-case-history.pdf

The decision to pursue a new, more centralised IM&T strategy, which became known as the
National Programme for IT in the NHS, was taken at the now infamous Downing Street
seminar on Monday 18 February 2002. The seminar itself was the result of a meeting
between the Prime Minister and then CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates, after which the Prime
Minister is said to have become �hooked� on the technological possibilities for improvement
in the NHS (Bacon and Hope, 2013).
The seminar, chaired by the Prime Minister, is said to have lasted just 90 minutes, though
the PM was present for only half that time (Ehi.co.uk, 2008). No minutes were kept (Ritter,
2008a). In attendance were (Ehi.co.uk, 2008):
� The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Tony Blair MP;
� Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Alan Milburn MP;
� Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Lord Hunt;
� Chief Executive NHS and Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Nigel Crisp;
� Director, Department of Health, Sir John Pattison;
� E-envoy, Andrew Pinder;
� Chair, Office of Government Commerce, Peter Gershon;
� Representatives from the networking solutions provider Cisco; and
� The UK Managing Director of Microsoft

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:24

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:03

distortion park: Apr 25, 2011

why the gently caress is � still not allowed in thread titles

# ? Sep 14, 2014 20:25

Fax Sender: Aug 11, 2013; kiss my ass

Haha owned

# ? Sep 14, 2014 21:24

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

this wouldn't have happened in a free and independent Scotland (because they don't have �10 billion)

# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:02

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 00:48

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 00:54

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

you can tell it was the early 2000s because e-envoy was a job title.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 00:55

Widdiful: Oct 10, 2012

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 01:08

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

poonds

# ? Sep 15, 2014 03:08

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 03:08

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

i guess they learned something from that fiasco then because somehow gov.uk is shockingly not-poo poo

and it seems to actually do a lot of stuff and do it well

# ? Sep 15, 2014 03:19

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

what's it like not having half of your legislators operating with the express goal of opposing everything the head of government does in every way?

# ? Sep 15, 2014 03:38

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 03:59

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

haha

# ? Sep 15, 2014 05:26

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 05:32

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

arrrgh i came here to post "send a hitman to your momma's house" but i got beaten by an inferior joke

# ? Sep 15, 2014 08:48

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Sagebrush posted:

send a hitman to your momma's house

# ? Sep 15, 2014 12:06

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

jony ive aces posted:

i'm not sure why, but i really like that jeffk comics has made a reappearance

# ? Sep 15, 2014 12:09

penus de milo: Mar 9, 2002; CHAR CHAR

Mr Dog posted:

i guess they learned something from that fiasco then because somehow gov.uk is shockingly not-poo poo

and it seems to actually do a lot of stuff and do it well

yeah gov.uk explicitly exists to have government IT and web stuff done by competent professionals who know what they are doing rather than throw Billions at IBM and Accenture so they can half-deliver some broken POS in 5 years

# ? Sep 15, 2014 13:14

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

penus de milo posted:

yeah gov.uk explicitly exists to have government IT and web stuff done by competent professionals who know what they are doing rather than throw Billions at IBM and Accenture so they can half-deliver some broken POS in 5 years

yeah it's all in house with extremely good designers, i went there last year it is nice and the head designer man is a pro

# ? Sep 15, 2014 13:42

Ericadia: Oct 31, 2007; Not A Unicorn

Sagebrush posted:

arrrgh i came here to post "send a hitman to your momma's house" but i got beaten by an inferior joke

I'm picturing it in my head and it's good :buddy:

# ? Sep 15, 2014 14:09

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

how the gently caress did our government manage to create a good it product :psyduck:

i'm expecting that after the next election gov.uk will be replaced with something broken

# ? Sep 15, 2014 14:37

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

prefect posted:

i'm not sure why, but i really like that jeffk comics has made a reappearance

link

# ? Sep 15, 2014 14:38

MORE CURLY FRIES: Apr 8, 2004

i thought this might be a health tip for gabe newell

# ? Sep 15, 2014 16:08

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

graph posted:

link

i just mean the comics showed up around here, now that the iphone is hueg

# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:15

Ghaz: Nov 19, 2004

i remember when the illuminati at least tried to come up with convincing fronts

# ? Sep 15, 2014 19:31

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

*riddles you with bullets for 90 minutes*

# ? Sep 15, 2014 19:59

distortion park: Apr 25, 2011

penus de milo posted:

yeah gov.uk explicitly exists to have government IT and web stuff done by competent professionals who know what they are doing rather than throw Billions at IBM and Accenture so they can half-deliver some broken POS in 5 years

lol it had a budget of �1.7million

# ? Sep 15, 2014 20:56

distortion park: Apr 25, 2011

that wouldn't even get a hellow world out of isoft

# ? Sep 15, 2014 20:57

.lnk to the past: May 3, 2005; psoting while drunk

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

op's mother needs to lose 10 billion pounds lol

# ? Sep 15, 2014 21:13

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

it consulting is a product of the fear of hiring technical professionals as full-time employees because they're expensive [and the mystique of them as smelly unmanageable neckbeards doesn't help either]

# ? Sep 15, 2014 23:04

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

i get that, but if one of my clients hired me direct but only had enough work for me 33% of the time they would still be ahead

# ? Sep 16, 2014 09:23

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

every time I use gov.uk I come away thinking "what a good website"

it's absolutely inexplicable

# ? Sep 16, 2014 10:09

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

qntm posted:

every time I use gov.uk I come away thinking "what a good website"

it's absolutely inexplicable

same but with yospos

# ? Sep 16, 2014 12:55

GATOS Y VATOS: Aug 22, 2002

jony ive aces posted:

same but with yospos

i am enjoying your new av, jony

# ? Sep 16, 2014 13:22

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

i am enjoying your new av, jony

my new sig is loving terrible though

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:34

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

jony ive aces posted:

my new sig is loving terrible though

don't sign your posts!!!!! :xd:

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:34

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

jony ive aces posted:

my new sig is loving terrible though

seriously, i have to adblock yet another loving sig

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:43

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

jony ive aces posted:

my new sig is loving terrible though

i like it

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:47

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:03

THE BIG DOG DADDY: Oct 16, 2013; Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.

No one talks about this.

pointsofdata posted:

(Bacon and Hope, 2013)

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:52

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