Bredonborough Off to London for
08.07
Bredonborough.
Off to London for the annual DGM/RF accountants’ meeting.
20.45 Leaving 08.15. Arriving to a leafy Chiswick street…
… c. 10.35. To the Chiswick Park tube…
… into Central London and Holborn Circus…
… where our accountant has recently moved. David DGM and Nicky Bookkeeper were also in attendance for a good meeting. Excellent news: for the first time in its history (18 years), DGM is profitable. Let’s hear it for the long view! Also good news: my personal mortgage can be reduced by a significant chunk.
Lunch with Nicky and David afterwards, on the street by the office building. Discussing a variety of matters, including the £12 billion write-off with the NHS computing scheme. David recalled that at the time of its launch, it was trumpeted as being the biggest of its kind in the world. This might have rung the bell of sharper wits than those who launched the dopey, catastrophic scheme. (En passant, I note that a friend of mine was engaged in this madness and, over a period of years, suffered badly from it: they lacked the edge of some who doubted the system’s unfitness-for-purpose, but continued the highly-profitable-for-the-providers undertaking anyway). David commented that the deficit in the NHS is pretty much the same as the write-off for the computer system.
£12bn NHS computer system is scrapped.on 22nd September 2011 (the) "£12bn
NHS computer system is scrapped...
Richard Granger - is the former Director General of IT for the NHS. He took up his post in October 2002… In October 2006, he was suggested by The Sunday Times to be the highest paid Civil Servant, on a basic of £280,000 per year, £100,000 per year more than former Prime Minister Tony Blair.[42] … Granger finally left the programme in February 2008.[44]
Granger's credentials were questioned by his own mother, a campaigner for the preservation of local health services in her area, who expressed her amazement at his appointment, criticising the whole scheme as "a gross waste of money".[22]
Health Service Boss failed IT Studies Granger has attracted widespread plaudits in the industry for tight management. But at the end of last year he upset some critics in the Department of Health, who accused him of running the project as though it were a separate barony outside Whitehall control. There were frequent changes in the senior officials who were supposed to be managing him, exposing the department to potential criticism from parliamentary watchdogs for failing make anyone personally accountable.
Personal accountability?
Tubing back to Chizz and driving home, arriving dribbling c.18.35.
Unloading, calls to/from the Minx and the Sistery Person.
E-flurry of intensity, while pitifully dribbling.
20.45 Enough. A feeble old man will attempt to climb the stairs to where a small rabbit is waiting to play.
