I think I heard this item as well but it was on "Mid Week" that is brordcast at 9am just after "Today".
It was Lichfield and the interviewer was LLiby Pervis.
I guess that none of them have to work. By the way Palin has said recently that he will not be doing any more long travel programs (round the world, pole to pole etc) as he feels he is getting to old for it
From http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/aboutus/ As a result of The Broadcast Act 1990, the BBC were made responsible for licence administration. TV Licensing is the trading name used by the BBC's agents who collect the licence fee on their behalf.
Over 1200 staff are employed at TV Licensing's main Contact Centres based in Bristol and Darwen in Lancashire.
If you had showing of Hip replavment operations on TV you would find that the demand for that may go down (its nasty)
But it is nessasery? surley the right to have an aboirtion is the same as the right of free speach? or freedom of religion? Yes they can come into conflict with one another but the world can exist with them all in it.
I'd just like to point out that they are not concentration camps, a concentration camp is where you put large parts of the (usualy civilian) population in order to keep them under your control. First used by the British in South Africa in the boer war.
Guantanamo camp is a wesaly attempt to abide by the letter of the law whilst breaching the spirit of the Law, by not allowing access to lawyers or any charges layed against the detaines.
The 30 billion is going on making all systems interface with one another so that we can make an electronic patient record that will reduce the about of duplicated work that is done. UI have known patients have 2 chest X-rays becuse the film disapered a immage libary will sort this. Patients will have 2 simmilar bloods taken when seeeing 2 diferent consultants becuse neather is aware of the other. that is why we need joined up thinking it IT in the NHS.
Personaly I have doughts about how the NPfIT is being implemantend but it should improve our care of patients.
Have a look at www.renalreg.com this is a site that shows all aspects of the treatment of patients on dialysis (Kidney problems). I know that my work with the departmental system has improved the care of tha patients by giveing thwe doctors information not on indervidual patents but on all the patient that the see.
If you look at the report for 2002 (latest avalibble data) in the section on adaqusey of dialysis you will see that all units are improving. this is due to the presure that being part of this national audit gives.
Yes the NHS is expensive. but the reults are good. As an insider I see improvments that the general public dosn't see. trust me when I say that things are improving.
The private sector health care in the UK is just a leach on the NHS. If something goes wrong in an operation in the local BUPA hospital where does the patient end up in Intencive care? in the Local NHS hospital.
How many Nurses and Doctors did the private sector train? None.
The waiting list thing is a great problem. The bit if the NHS I workin is bringing its waiting lists down. How? by using IT and mangment changes to imporve how information flows through the hospital.
Its a shame that the press go screaming all the time excentuation the negative. But then good news dosn't sell
I Still work in the NHS. We have just had a aplication to buy a new specialty system turned down (after 3 years work) becuse there is a "solution" provided by our LSP (Big company as mentiond above). Dispite the fact this is not the system that the managers and clinitians want. But thats where the monny is at the momment.
XML based HL7.2 is what we are meant to use to interface in the NHS (Yes I work in IT in a NHS hospital). Moving legacy systems to do this is going to be fun...
I've worked in the NHS for nearly 10 years. I can remeber what it was like when the Torys where in power. At least now we have better staffing levels, the flexibilty to apply solutions to local problems and above all monny coming down for desparatly needed improvment, expantion and renovation.
Up untill 1997 the IT depatment was on a shoe stirng and we had relyability problems. Now we have over 70 servers and over 1000 desktops (PC's on Citrix clients) tunning with very few problems and with enough redundancey to get us out of many prblems.
We are acutly aware that monny is tight and we must spend whisely but we are NOT pissing it away.
"If you insist on cross-plattform development in the meantime"
How often do you think that we in the NHS chage systems? Cost of a new system is in the £50k-£150k for a single department clinical system. In the hospital I work in we have about 15 of these. They are not due for replacement in a longtime.
£500 mill is about £1.3mill per hospital over nine years (about 350 hospitals off the top of my head) I don't think that that works out to bad realy...
I don't think that they (IBM, Novell) could actualy get somthing in place for that sum or anything like it
"And don't worry, FOSS has already proven it's effectiveness. After all nearly 30% of all servers are based on open source software"
I work in an NHS hospital, I was in the server room 2 hours ago. Total servers aprox 100, total servers not running Windows? 2 (PAS on Alpha box and Renal system on RedHat 7.2 Linux)
"If you switch to linux you have a high likelyhood of needing to eliminate many jobs since Linux is much lower mantanance then Windows is once you have it setup and develop your automation."
And you don't think that we can automate windows?? We have some very tallented people working in the IT department. All servers are migrating to Server 2003, all desktops are XP SP2 (fully tested before roll out)
I'm not a Windows fanboy ( I am the system Manager for the only system based on Linux) but you realy need to know a little more about the state of the art before saying open source is better.
I work at local general NHS hospital in a seaside town east of London.
The most used aplication is office (Word Outlook excel) followed by the PAS (Patient Admin System) running on an HP alpha server. All the rest of the clinical systems run on Windows server 2000 or Sever 2003. Except the system that I am responcable for, it runs on RedHat 7.2
We went with the Linux option as we wanted to get away from working on Novell netware. Novell and NT (as we where on then) didn't work together well. Our supplier agreed to do the port (most of the sites are on *nix so it simplifys things for them). Support for the Linux box is a bit thin basicly I know a bit and one other bloke who knows more are responcible for it.
However running this particular app on linux is great, it runs about 100 times faster (real test done to conferm) and getting access is a doddle from any computer in the hospital.
Do I wish we used opensource more? Well I can't see many clinical apps going over as there just isant the demand for it at the momment and to be honist nurseing staff are very resistant to change.
They were the first to use a very soft suspension (advertised with a car bumping over a freshly plowed field with raw eggs on the backseat. The eggs remained intact).
The 2CV.
I've still got one of these! 36 bhp of fun, with no danger of falling asleep at the wheel (to uncomfortable)
Designed in the 30's, first produced in the late 40's, end of production in 90's. One hell of a car!
In the UK there are few places to stop 15 min is not enough. I was coming up from Brighton up the M23 towards the M25 (motorway round London) I saw a sign saying
"Next services M25 (westbound) 78miles" !
Given the lightly traffic on that road that is a min of 1hr and more like 2 hours away On holiday in France there are rest places ever 20km or so.
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I think I heard this item as well but it was on "Mid Week" that is brordcast at 9am just after "Today". It was Lichfield and the interviewer was LLiby Pervis.
However, learning another language (i.e. morse code) does not usually result in death
But everybody that learnt morse 120 years ago is dead! Don't learn it I say!
Jones is also a sucsessfull film director....
I guess that none of them have to work. By the way Palin has said recently that he will not be doing any more long travel programs (round the world, pole to pole etc) as he feels he is getting to old for it
About 10 % (See yesterday slashdot article)
Sorry you are wrong in this believ
From http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/aboutus/
As a result of The Broadcast Act 1990, the BBC were made responsible for licence administration. TV Licensing is the trading name used by the BBC's agents who collect the licence fee on their behalf.
Over 1200 staff are employed at TV Licensing's main Contact Centres based in Bristol and Darwen in Lancashire.
if short...
If you had showing of Hip replavment operations on TV you would find that the demand for that may go down (its nasty)
But it is nessasery? surley the right to have an aboirtion is the same as the right of free speach? or freedom of religion? Yes they can come into conflict with one another but the world can exist with them all in it.
Last count in my house was about 8 diferent versions of the bible In my parents house about 20 (they are Methodist Ministers)
"guantanamo concentration camps"
I'd just like to point out that they are not concentration camps, a concentration camp is where you put large parts of the (usualy civilian) population in order to keep them under your control. First used by the British in South Africa in the boer war.
Guantanamo camp is a wesaly attempt to abide by the letter of the law whilst breaching the spirit of the Law, by not allowing access to lawyers or any charges layed against the detaines.
Try punching a sack of potatoes.
Or save time and just shoot the potatoes insteed!
We use a Citrix farm to provide thin client to the desktop, the thick client sit on the Citrix servers, job done
The 30 billion is going on making all systems interface with one another so that we can make an electronic patient record that will reduce the about of duplicated work that is done. UI have known patients have 2 chest X-rays becuse the film disapered a immage libary will sort this. Patients will have 2 simmilar bloods taken when seeeing 2 diferent consultants becuse neather is aware of the other. that is why we need joined up thinking it IT in the NHS.
Personaly I have doughts about how the NPfIT is being implemantend but it should improve our care of patients.
Have a look at www.renalreg.com this is a site that shows all aspects of the treatment of patients on dialysis (Kidney problems). I know that my work with the departmental system has improved the care of tha patients by giveing thwe doctors information not on indervidual patents but on all the patient that the see.
If you look at the report for 2002 (latest avalibble data) in the section on adaqusey of dialysis you will see that all units are improving. this is due to the presure that being part of this national audit gives.
Yes the NHS is expensive. but the reults are good. As an insider I see improvments that the general public dosn't see. trust me when I say that things are improving.
Sorry typing fast and spelling gone to hell
I work in a NHS hospital witht the ratio of IT to staff as above 1 per 150 ish.
All our stuff is done via scripting and remote administration. But its windows.
Sorry, if linux can learn from windows (GUI et al) then it is resnable to expect windows to learn from UNIX
The private sector health care in the UK is just a leach on the NHS.
If something goes wrong in an operation in the local BUPA hospital where does the patient end up in Intencive care? in the Local NHS hospital.
How many Nurses and Doctors did the private sector train? None.
Gits
The waiting list thing is a great problem. The bit if the NHS I workin is bringing its waiting lists down. How? by using IT and mangment changes to imporve how information flows through the hospital. Its a shame that the press go screaming all the time excentuation the negative. But then good news dosn't sell
I Still work in the NHS. We have just had a aplication to buy a new specialty system turned down (after 3 years work) becuse there is a "solution" provided by our LSP (Big company as mentiond above). Dispite the fact this is not the system that the managers and clinitians want. But thats where the monny is at the momment.
XML based HL7.2 is what we are meant to use to interface in the NHS (Yes I work in IT in a NHS hospital). Moving legacy systems to do this is going to be fun...
We hope...If anyone can agreee what we want. I have a hard time getting 3 Consultants (senior Doctors) in one hospital department to agree.
In our hospital the IT team are having to work hard not to get NPfIT solution thrust upon them that they don't want.
I think that the idear of the natinal spine et al is good . but the implimentation is going to be very hard indeed
Yes lets have compertion in the NHS!
I've worked in the NHS for nearly 10 years. I can remeber what it was like when the Torys where in power.
At least now we have better staffing levels, the flexibilty to apply solutions to local problems and above all monny coming down for desparatly needed improvment, expantion and renovation.
Up untill 1997 the IT depatment was on a shoe stirng and we had relyability problems. Now we have over 70 servers and over 1000 desktops (PC's on Citrix clients) tunning with very few problems and with enough redundancey to get us out of many prblems.
We are acutly aware that monny is tight and we must spend whisely but we are NOT pissing it away.
"If you insist on cross-plattform development in the meantime" How often do you think that we in the NHS chage systems? Cost of a new system is in the £50k-£150k for a single department clinical system. In the hospital I work in we have about 15 of these. They are not due for replacement in a longtime.
£500 mill is about £1.3mill per hospital over nine years (about 350 hospitals off the top of my head) I don't think that that works out to bad realy... I don't think that they (IBM, Novell) could actualy get somthing in place for that sum or anything like it
"And don't worry, FOSS has already proven it's effectiveness. After all nearly 30% of all servers are based on open source software"
I work in an NHS hospital, I was in the server room 2 hours ago. Total servers aprox 100, total servers not running Windows? 2 (PAS on Alpha box and Renal system on RedHat 7.2 Linux)
"If you switch to linux you have a high likelyhood of needing to eliminate many jobs since Linux is much lower mantanance then Windows is once you have it setup and develop your automation."
And you don't think that we can automate windows?? We have some very tallented people working in the IT department. All servers are migrating to Server 2003, all desktops are XP SP2 (fully tested before roll out)
I'm not a Windows fanboy ( I am the system Manager for the only system based on Linux) but you realy need to know a little more about the state of the art before saying open source is better.
I work at local general NHS hospital in a seaside town east of London.
The most used aplication is office (Word Outlook excel) followed by the PAS (Patient Admin System) running on an HP alpha server. All the rest of the clinical systems run on Windows server 2000 or Sever 2003. Except the system that I am responcable for, it runs on RedHat 7.2
We went with the Linux option as we wanted to get away from working on Novell netware. Novell and NT (as we where on then) didn't work together well. Our supplier agreed to do the port (most of the sites are on *nix so it simplifys things for them). Support for the Linux box is a bit thin basicly I know a bit and one other bloke who knows more are responcible for it.
However running this particular app on linux is great, it runs about 100 times faster (real test done to conferm) and getting access is a doddle from any computer in the hospital.
Do I wish we used opensource more? Well I can't see many clinical apps going over as there just isant the demand for it at the momment and to be honist nurseing staff are very resistant to change.
They were the first to use a very soft suspension (advertised with a car bumping over a freshly plowed field with raw eggs on the backseat. The eggs remained intact).
The 2CV.
I've still got one of these! 36 bhp of fun, with no danger of falling asleep at the wheel (to uncomfortable)
Designed in the 30's, first produced in the late 40's, end of production in 90's. One hell of a car!
In the UK there are few places to stop 15 min is not enough.
I was coming up from Brighton up the M23 towards the M25 (motorway round London) I saw a sign saying
"Next services M25 (westbound) 78miles" !
Given the lightly traffic on that road that is a min of 1hr and more like 2 hours away
On holiday in France there are rest places ever 20km or so.