Archives: February, 2009
WRITTEN ON Friday, February 27th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
The Department for Work and Pensions is covertly supporting Royal Mail and the Northern Irish economy, my colleagues at Government Computing weekly can reveal. A colleague’s brother recently signed on for Jobseeker’s Allowance for the first time. Attending Jobcentre Plus as instructed, he was asked to fill in forms to apply for the allowance, housing [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 20th, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, What do we want?
Yes, there are things about UK travel websites that are annoying (eg why does The Trainline INSIST that you select ’00′ minutes, when you have indicated that you want to find a train that departs or arrives on the hour??). BUT nothing beats a bit of mystery shopping to remind you that things really aren’t [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Celebration where celebration’s due: it must be seen as extremely IDEAL to receive a tax rebate on Feb 4th from a tax return filed on January 29th. Well done HMRC – or at least Kenny C, inspector of taxes at Lothian. Now let’s get the rest of it sorted: like those dreadful phone calls I [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, February 15th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Two letters in the Financial Times. Compare … National commissioner will not be ‘selling’ ID cards Published: February 9 2009 02:00 | Last updated: February 9 2009 02:00 From Meg Hillier MP. Sir, With reference to Sue Cameron’s Notebook (“Wanted: Champion earner for old rope”, February 4), the advertisement for the National Identity Scheme commissioner [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 13th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
More feedback from the ground about top-down, centralised, one-size-fits all programmes to “computerise” the NHS. The Royal Free hospital in London – one of the initial pilot sites for the roll-out of patient records – tell us that the system didn’t work for them: and cost this one trust some £10m. Kable’s lead analyst on [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
The moderator is off on hols for the next two weeks. And I’ve been more than distracted for the last few. So I’ve been quiet, and will be quieter still. But there’s more going on than ever: more to celebrate (Power of Info, US developments) and more to deplore (more data sharing and the onward [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Transformational Government, What do we want?
There’s some confusion at the D’oH! about who is the servant and who the master: NHS bosses leading the rollout of the Summary Care Record are refusing to take no for an answer from patients who say they want to opt out, Pulse can reveal. GPs in the first wave of the rollout are being [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, February 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
The Power of Information task force report is out. And – hurrah – it’s in beta format, so you can comment on it just like it was on Sam’s Commentonthis service. Cool! Set too! I’ve been hard at it all w/e so havent read it yet myself….
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