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Briefly back to the NHS. I've been in NHS IT for nearly 25 years now. There are very few things about NHS IT that won't make you scream. System interoperability is a never ending struggle. We literally can't afford to lose a handful of IT staff (mostly DBAs) because every system that needs to talk to other systems is wholly dependent on the work of a couple of engineers. One is nearing retirement. We have created a middle-man system that can pull data from the majority of the other systems, but it is completely in-house and started life as a side-project of a couple of devs. We certainly can't lose those guys. And that brings up the main problem: Nobody makes healthcare software. There just isn't enough of a market to draw the interest of anyone competent. And with hardware, it gets even worse. Globally, there is now one supplier for the pathology equipment/software we need. And as you can imagine, they are making the most of their monopoly. They are also utter shite. 10 years ago, we could have moved away from them, but if we had we would now be running a fully unsupported path system. Upgrading it to get us off Windows 2012 is a multi-year project. This theme covers every clinical department to some degree. We did try a country-wide 'merged system' some time ago called the National Program for IT. This was a spectacular failure as there were still 3 suppliers available to each Trust, but they didn't talk to each other properly, and there were no rules around who gets which supplier. It goes without saying that all 3 suppliers were poo poo. It was a good idea, but it was never going to work with the requirements and low quality of the suppliers/tools. Edit 147 is the maximum score in a single frame of snooker, a strange hobby that people call a sport. frankenbeans fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 13:03
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frankenbeans posted:And that brings up the main problem: Nobody makes healthcare software. I think you might need to clarify that as there are plenty of commercial EPR systems (not to mention booking and billing systems) and the big daddy EPIC is big enough to be involved in hush-hush scandals about patient safety in the US. Are you referring to back end lab management software or some more specialised bits?
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Apr 9, 2024 13:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:Disturbing reports out of London Sorry, what is the purpose behind the plastic ring? Is he worried that London is full of lust crazed Londoners who will fall on him and desperately try to hump him to death, but will be held at bay by a sign that they are married? Like, does this bell-end think a wedding ring acts like a Clerics Holy symbol and wards off the undead or sex-ghosts?
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Apr 9, 2024 13:25
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The Question IRL posted:Sorry, what is the purpose behind the plastic ring? I think the idea is if he wears a valuable one he'll be robbed.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:26
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Everyone is getting robbed constantly in Khan's London. It's like being in Ankh Morpork.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:30
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Man, Pratchett would have such good fun ripping on ULEZ weirdos 
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Apr 9, 2024 13:32
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As a (east, even) Londoner, can confirm, I get robbed at crossbow point literally every time I open my front door. This is totally a real thing that happens. Point of order on Ankh-Morpork though, you are perfectly safe from being robbed as long as you pay your annual protection fee to the Thieves' Guild iirc.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:47
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fuctifino posted:'Comedian' and GBeebies presenter Leo Kearse seems to have been cancelled after a torch was shone on his social media activity, hence this desperate scraping of the bottom of the barrel by Calvin Oh hey, he's a comedian? Will have to look at his twitter, I love a good laugh https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1775262282454622614 HAHAHAHAHA Brilliant, what a knee slapper. Can you imagine selling tickets to a Marxist conference?
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Apr 9, 2024 13:49
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bessantj posted:Oh hey, he's a comedian? Will have to look at his twitter, I love a good laugh the comments on that post are super weird. like sure id expect some kind of left / right antagonism but one goes straight to “makes you wonder how many in that room have sex with dogs.” literally never in my life have i wondered that about anyone??
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Apr 9, 2024 13:50
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frankenbeans posted:Briefly back to the NHS. I've been in NHS IT for nearly 25 years now. There are very few things about NHS IT that won't make you scream. Can't we just get Estonia to make everyone's health care IT systems?
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Apr 9, 2024 13:52
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smellmycheese posted:Not really sure why Captain Haddock is in the gang of angry lefty stereotypes standing in the way of Wes’s privatisation plans here lot of hook-nosed caricatures in that "middle class lefties" mob huh
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Apr 9, 2024 13:53
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To me it just looks like wes is abducting grannies from the hospital.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:59
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mediaphage posted:the comments on that post are super weird. like sure id expect some kind of left / right antagonism but one goes straight to “makes you wonder how many in that room have sex with dogs.” Well you know what they say about accusations and projection.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:00
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mediaphage posted:the comments on that post are super weird. like sure id expect some kind of left / right antagonism but one goes straight to “makes you wonder how many in that room have sex with dogs.” Have you never watched PMQs then?
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Apr 9, 2024 14:16
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Z the IVth posted:I think you might need to clarify that as there are plenty of commercial EPR systems (not to mention booking and billing systems) and the big daddy EPIC is big enough to be involved in hush-hush scandals about patient safety in the US. There are a few EPR systems, but a lot of departments have at best 1 or 2 software options for their specific areas, and they are invariably garbage. We still have systems coming in now that can't go on anything newer than Server 2016, or need to have the server permanently logged in because it was created by some ex-doctor in visual basic on a workstation, and can't be run as a background service.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:19
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OwlFancier posted:To me it just looks like wes is abducting grannies from the hospital. Spare capacity in the sense of organ storage.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:20
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domhal posted:Spare capacity in the sense of organ storage. I thought that was refugees. Granny gonna get a nice new Afghan kidney.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:Have you never watched PMQs then? i didnt say pigs
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Apr 9, 2024 14:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:Disturbing reports out of London its funny, living in an area with more violent crime than even the roughest london boroughs and I still wouldn't shy away from wearing jewlery and wearing a watch, the hysteria is so embarassing.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:47
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Sad Panda posted:Can you go via a physio appointment? My knee has been giving me grief so I went to a physio. They suggested an xray which took a couple of weeks to get and then a couple weeks more for the results. Showed nothing so they referred me for an MRI. I was lucky that after the appointment on Thursday I got the call at lunch and an invite for an MRI last Sunday. Now just the wait for the results. Wow that sounds good? Might be worth a try. I'll see if the x-ray I had comes back this week & maybe look in to that route depending what it might show up.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:50
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feedmegin posted:As a (east, even) Londoner, can confirm, I get robbed at crossbow point literally every time I open my front door. This is totally a real thing that happens. Not only that, if you pay a little extra you can have an acceptable level of physical violence performed on you in the comfort of your own home and also be completely safe from muggers, murderers and assaulters.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:51
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wow that sounds good? Might be worth a try. Also if you don't know, the NHS app will (should?) have your xray results on it. Checking that is a lot better than calling the GP to see if they're in. It also gave me a lot more detail as opposed to the person on reception who literally said "Yes, your results are in. They were satisfactory." and seemed slightly surprised when I asked for a follow up with the physio to talk about them. It may also be worth organising a physio appointment about your knee now with the assumption your xray results will be in before the appointment.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:11
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Sad Panda posted:Also if you don't know, the NHS app will (should?) have your xray results on it. Checking that is a lot better than calling the GP to see if they're in. It also gave me a lot more detail as opposed to the person on reception who literally said "Yes, your results are in. They were satisfactory." and seemed slightly surprised when I asked for a follow up with the physio to talk about them. I'll check out the NHS app - it wasn't available in Wales last time I looked but is being rolled out now. Thanks. Ed: no, doesn't look like my GP practice puts test results on there. I shall have to hobble over there tomorrow (it's only about 5 mins away onna stick and next to Waitrose  )Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 15:16
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Can you document this, or get them to document it? Because that sounds like a lot of pain waiting to happen.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:Disturbing reports out of London What's great is that we've arrived at a place where there's no longer any attempt to advocate for changes that might help combat, say, pickpocketing in London, it's just "Khann!!!!! This happened on your watch, Khannn!!!" with the implicit suggestion that the Mayor is deliberately bussing criminals into the city and letting them run riot like we're living in mob Chicago or something
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Apr 9, 2024 15:23
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It kind of is a perfect encapsulation of the situation though. All those fuckers in the queue are still going to be waiting, but Wes is being hailed as a hero for letting a half dead person who can afford it jump the queue. They're also deeply confused if they think it's the middle classes protesting private healthcare. It's the middle classes who can afford it. Working class people can't afford it.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:33
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grobbo posted:What's great is that we've arrived at a place where there's no longer any attempt to advocate for changes that might help combat, say, pickpocketing in London, it's just "Khann!!!!! This happened on your watch, Khannn!!!" with the implicit suggestion that the Mayor is deliberately bussing criminals into the city and letting them run riot like we're living in mob Chicago or something Thing is, through his ULEZ scheme Mr Khan has [unintelligible] and that's why I'm carrying a machete to visit Shoreditch.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:33
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frankenbeans posted:
Not the NHS, but a friend of mine's husband retired at 60, then his (big company which services millions of people a year) hired him back because a large part of their operational requirement depended on a legacy mainframe system using a programming language hardly anyone knows anymore (cobol maybe? Not sure.) and he was one of only 2 people that knew it. Anyway, then he died unexpectedly so they now only have one person that can sort out any problems with this software and he must be almost 70 now. Apparently it would cost an absolute fortune to build a new system (though if it goes pop there will be even more to pay out in compo etc. I'm not entirely sure what it did but it could even cause some major (human life) disasters. Talking of which - are any of you on Unix making any sort of planning towards the Unix 'millenium bug' of 2038? Or has that potential problem all gone away? 14 years seems like a long time, but it isn't, really.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:38
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ItohRespectArmy posted:its funny, living in an area with more violent crime than even the roughest london boroughs and I still wouldn't shy away from wearing jewlery and wearing a watch, the hysteria is so embarassing. Where do you live and are there are any areas with poor street lighting or CCTV blindspots? Asking as a security precaution, you understand
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Apr 9, 2024 15:41
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Bobby Deluxe posted:They're also deeply confused if they think it's the middle classes protesting private healthcare. It's the middle classes who can afford it. Working class people can't afford it. They're not confused, it's just in their best interest to pretend that anyone left-of-centre is coming from a position of privilege
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Apr 9, 2024 15:41
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Noxville posted:They're not confused, it's just in their best interest to pretend that anyone left-of-centre is coming from a position of privilege That's what I don't get - Streeting is more or less implying that 'middle class lefties' don't work or aren't hard working or whatever, but he - on more income than at least 95% of the population - is? So many mixed (up) messages in that.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:52
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keep punching joe posted:Is there such a thing as a right wing comedian who's jokes aren't about punching down on minorities? The Question IRL posted:wards off the undead or sex-ghosts?
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Apr 9, 2024 16:06
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Dabir posted:lot of hook-nosed caricatures in that "middle class lefties" mob huh You know, this could easily need edited to be like the Zyklon Ben edits of Garrison comics, just change the spare capacity to be "Ovens" Probably wouldn't be far off Blowers actual views, too.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:08
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grobbo posted:What's great is that we've arrived at a place where there's no longer any attempt to advocate for changes that might help combat, say, pickpocketing in London, it's just "Khann!!!!! This happened on your watch, Khannn!!!" with the implicit suggestion that the Mayor is deliberately bussing criminals into the city and letting them run riot like we're living in mob Chicago or something Mayoral election's coming up, so "demonise the brown guy in charge" is in full swing.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:10
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Tesseraction posted:You know, this could easily need edited to be like the Zyklon Ben edits of Garrison comics, just change the spare capacity to be "Ovens" The Cum edits of Garrison are funnier and would also work well here. I’d do it if I could be arsed
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Apr 9, 2024 16:11
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smellmycheese posted:Not really sure why Captain Haddock is in the gang of angry lefty stereotypes standing in the way of Wes’s privatisation plans here Hate this "Spare capacity" nonsense from Piss Streaking. I worked in an NHS funded Private sector Eating Disorder unit. It was a poo poo show. £3000 a bed and all the consultants were NHS doctors moonlighting or retired old foggies who were tragically out of touch and egotistical. Absolutely nothing done there was any different from what you would get in the NHS except the food was better and the majority of the work was done by HCA's being paid barely above the minimum wage. A complete waste of money that would have been cheaper and better if they just funded the NHS properly. But then Wes wouldn't get his bribes, would he?
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Apr 9, 2024 16:17
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Tesseraction posted:You know, this could easily need edited to be like the Zyklon Ben edits of Garrison comics, just change the spare capacity to be "Ovens" The what edits?
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Apr 9, 2024 16:18
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Oh, you know, just the ones where a non-zero number of political cartoonists are actual Nazis. Whereupon Blower is the stupid idiot man, I am the laughing Jew making him look bad, and all political cartoons are the appalling sack of poo poo that nobody should enjoy viewing.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:25
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Runcible Cat posted:Mayoral election's coming up, so "demonise the brown guy in charge" is in full swing. It is funny how hard Labour are trying to get donations for the mayoral election so that "we can compete" when the Tory candidate and campaign are rainbow-farting-unicorns levels of lunacy. Also, Kevin Pietersen is a humourless narcissist too stupid to realise when his fellow cricket commentators are taking the piss out of him.
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I got sent to a private hospital for urethral damage and they did very nice egg and cress sandwiches while I was laid up. Spent most of the day asleep and the bed was very good too, not sure I have slept as well before or since but that might have been the UTI, who can say.
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