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Universal benefit - £0.425bn to be written off.
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ringo_24601 wrote: »
My current firm won't let you put down more than 40 hours, even if you work 70 (never have). On the plus side, they give you time in lieu for the extra hours (my old firm would have laughed at you). They are far more stringent on our bill-ability though.
You might work in the same place as i then.
Do 30 hours productive work one week and 50 the next week and they get uppity if you reflect that in the time sheets.
Put the right number of hours to make a lovely round 40 and you are golden, even if it is patently cobblers.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »The public sector can run decent databases. They run thousands of the things. Council tax databases etc for instance run absolutely fine. Hundreds of NHS databases run without a hitch.
The problem with all the others is that they are never thought out. These are the "politics driven" databases. The databases that are created on the back of a sudden policy. To create a successful database you need to know what data is required and what output is required.....
The above gets to the nub (possibly). If you are in any way right, it confirms my opinion that the Public Sector is still back in the 1900's when Computers=Databases.
In other words, everything that requires doing or performing for 'customers' is done handraulically, using form SAFJ1869B(2007b), lovingly filled in by an illiterate customer, and quickly reviewed by a sloppy civil servant... Later on, it's then "input" into the massive databases by illiterate oiks on minimum wage.
Of course, modern systems are a myriad of complex relational databases, but it is the "Processing" of data that provides (or not) a half-decent system. Public servants do not know or understand this. THey never have.
Even back in 2000, I know from experience that when you go into a Korean hospital for the first time, you give them your name/details once and never again. You are followed through the system using bar codes, images, and online real time information.
The last time I went into a UK hospital (earlier this year) I had to fill in (or give to a member of staff filling in yet another form) my name address, dob, next of kin...... about 12 or 13 times!
On a previous occasion, I went in for a device removal which consists of a simple scan, and if OK, a 5 minute removal and then home within 30 minutes. If the scan fails (as mine did) you simply go home and come back next week. I was told this at 11:40 a.m. but could not go home until a consultant had signed a paper. Not only did I have to wait until after 6 p.m. for this, I had to spend two long sessions with 'nurses' filling in exactly the same information [how many stairs in the house, does my wife have a car and can she look after me. All my previous illnesses, what drugs I take, How much money I have on me....]. I protested in the loudest possible voice that I should be allowed to go home, but their "system" convinced them that they needed to admit me!
This is a system that is utterly broken, not fit for purpose, and there were about 6 or 7 others in the same position. One 70+ year old made so much noise after a wasted day there, they put him in a cupboard, from which he was still shouting when I left at 6:15 p.m.0 -
ringo_24601 wrote: »Of Course. I could use a project (Billable) code rather than a travel (non-billable) code. My old firm would let you bill whatever work you did on a project, to it. If you worked a 60 hour week, you popped that on your timesheet.
My current firm won't let you put down more than 40 hours, even if you work 70 (never have). On the plus side, they give you time in lieu for the extra hours (my old firm would have laughed at you). They are far more stringent on our bill-ability though.
I'm very stupid and I don't do contracting work (Wife won't let me...)
That reminds me of a joke about consultants/contractors.
A contractor dies on a fishing accident on his 40th birthday and finds himself greeted at the Pearly Gates by a brass band.
Saint Peter runs over, shakes his hand and says "Congratulations!"
"Congratulations for what?" asks the contractor.
"Congratulations for what?" says Saint Peter. "We are celebrating the fact that you lived to be 160 years old."
"But that's not true," says the consultant. "I only lived to be forty."
"That's impossible," says Saint Peter, "we added up your time sheets."In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
You'll be happy to know that the system I'm working on today will help connect 3 different hospitals to the same radiology system, so that whatever 'local' hospital you go into, your images are viewable from there (And radiology reports.. if the suppliers ever send me any sample messages).
Badly connected IT systems keep a roof over my family0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »I was told this at 11:40 a.m. but could not go home until a consultant had signed a paper. Not only did I have to wait until after 6 p.m. for this, I had to spend two long sessions with 'nurses' filling in exactly the same information [how many stairs in the house, does my wife have a car and can she look after me. All my previous illnesses, what drugs I take, How much money I have on me....]. I protested in the loudest possible voice that I should be allowed to go home, but their "system" convinced them that they needed to admit me!
And the reason is probably to ensure they have covered their backsides just in case you decide you want to later make a claim, on the hospital, for falling down your own stairs or Mrs LM deciding to run you over.
If we didn't have the desperate compo culture that pervades western economies (not doubt producing oodles of GDP) I guess we wouldn't have all those forms.
My MIL was recently admitted through A&E and they immediately traced her ID, produced a lovely pristine folder full of those mulit print sticky labels with her details on. They then got appended to anything that moved as she went through the system.
As well as the standard ID paper braclet they also tagged her with a little tracking device."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
ringo_24601 wrote: »You'll be happy to know that the system I'm working on today will help connect 3 different hospitals to the same radiology system, so that whatever 'local' hospital you go into, your images are viewable from there (And radiology reports.. if the suppliers ever send me any sample messages).
Badly connected IT systems keep a roof over my family
I was recently viewing PACs(?) and considering what it was doing retrieving/viewing/manipulating images and reports it seemed pretty good.
The consultant thought it was clunky and not overly intuitive but I guess if you are using them day in day out lag can get to you."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
That reminds me of a joke about consultants/contractors.
A contractor dies on a fishing accident on his 40th birthday and finds himself greeted at the Pearly Gates by a brass band.
Saint Peter runs over, shakes his hand and says "Congratulations!"
"Congratulations for what?" asks the contractor.
"Congratulations for what?" says Saint Peter. "We are celebrating the fact that you lived to be 160 years old."
"But that's not true," says the consultant. "I only lived to be forty."
"That's impossible," says Saint Peter, "we added up your time sheets."
I would be about 20 if the work package estimates had been met."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
I've always looked at the super-highres PACS monitors in envy. A good setup will use ridiculously expensive screens. Sod the consultant, it's the radiologists you need to keep happygrizzly1911 wrote: »I was recently viewing PACs(?) and considering what it was doing retrieving/viewing/manipulating images and reports it seemed pretty good.
The consultant thought it was clunky and not overly intuitive but I guess if you are using them day in day out lag can get to you.
Now the tricky thing with combining 3 hospitals into one PACS, is that you can't rely on a single identifier per person. Not everyone has an NHS number so you need to keep a combined record of the 3 hospitals, their patients, and those patients that are the same between the three.
Not to mention the report format isn't compatible with the RIS (Radiology information system) so you need to mess around with it quite a bit and the blooming suppliers won't send you any examples, plus their specs change at-will <grumble>0 -
ringo_24601 wrote: »I've always looked at the super-highres PACS monitors in envy. A good setup will use ridiculously expensive screens. Sod the consultant, it's the radiologists you need to keep happy
Now the tricky thing with combining 3 hospitals into one PACS, is that you can't rely on a single identifier per person. Not everyone has an NHS number so you need to keep a combined record of the 3 hospitals, their patients, and those patients that are the same between the three.
Not to mention the report format isn't compatible with the RIS (Radiology information system) so you need to mess around with it quite a bit and the blooming suppliers won't send you any examples, plus their specs change at-will <grumble>
I should have said consultant radiologist.
It was a sizeable screen.
Wonder what it would be like for gaming;)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
http://www.necdisplay.com/p/medical-diagnostic-displays/md301c4
7ms refresh rate, so not too bad. 4K display
I was told they're expensive because of the calibration. When really, it's because they're selling them to hospitals..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002594
Those things go for about $3k0
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