Richard Branson is suing the NHS

[Diablo]

I haven't heard of any railway strikers trying to take money from the NHS, have you ?

I would imagine they do.......Or are they so well paid they have private health insurance?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Unquestionably the greatest self publicist of all time. Champion of zero hour contracts, a gentleman who probably pays less tax than anyone on this forum. Suffice to say, his photograph is not on my bedside table.

I Knew the guy years back at the start of his airline. He is beyond doubt one of the biggest ********s I've dealt with. I knew him over a few years nothing changed that perception. A "hands wandering" stomach churning tosser. He tried to perceive he was from a poor background but was silver spooned into slum landlordship by his father. Odious shite.

 

[Ernest]

I would imagine they do.......Or are they so well paid they have private health insurance?

I'd imagine every railwayman pays his fare share of tax unlike Branson or are you just being a pathetic troll ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Oh agreed but the difference is that in those cases it's only private money at stake. I'll give an example of the public sector politics in these types of projects. I worked on the original email project with the NHS many years ago with the EDS. It was to have a single email system for the whole NHS. There were many arguments between trusts about the look, feel and function of the system. To the point that the whole project broke down after around £1Bn being spent. All on something as simple as an email system and all for power and politics.

EDS? You poor sod. I was there when Dick Brown (yes everyone else, that was what he was called) was running it in to the ground. Not for long though.

I've seen private companies waste spectacular amounts of money on IT and consultancy but you are correct in that this example dwarfs the scale of most other failed projects!

 

[Westdene Seagull]

EDS? You poor sod. I was there when Dick Brown (yes everyone else, that was what he was called) was running it in to the ground. Not for long though.

I've seen private companies waste spectacular amounts of money on IT and consultancy but you are correct in that this example dwarfs the scale of most other failed projects!

Ah good old Dick Brown - I'd forgotten about him. An utter crook that made corrupt deals which eventually killed the company. Allegedly he's the person that came up with the herding cats advert idea !

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You say that like it doesn't happen when people in the private sector deliver services and projects to other people in the private sector.

In fact it can happen on any project where the people giving the requirements are inexperienced in doing so, and poor analysis and project management by the service provider inevitably makes things worse


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Indeed. But one of the major downsides of privatisation is that the experts who used to work in the public sector now no longer do so. Having a degree from Oxford or Cambridge is not enough, but it's the basis on which government agencies now recruit their senior staff. What we, the public, get is a level of public sector incompetence that more or less guarantees that contract management will go wrong.