Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg

Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by azalemeth on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:28PM (#32544066)

This is very true. The NHS has become a commissioning organisation -- it puts out a request for a service and providers bid for it. Many of these services are IT related; many of them are things like physiotherapy referral programmes. Patients may or may not know who provides their care. This is not at all how things used to be and I have noticed it get far worse of late.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by tailspin2019 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:20PM (#32545865)

As an aside, I’ve had first hand experience in a couple of those outsourced IT services and the amount of wasted money in that area alone is staggering.

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Re:Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only... by phatfish on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:04PM (#32546142)

Said firms are also laughably bad. A number of NHS services were taken down by a crypto-locker style attack just recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62442127

The internal NHS IT services were no worse and far better value as you say.

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