Some weeks ago I published a post entitled - Management Consultants Friends or Foe where I reported on an article I had read in the Daily Mail. In it Dr Paul Miller, leader of Britain’s hospitital doctors (Chairman of the British Medical Association Consultants Committee), mocked Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s recent boast that the HNS has had its best year ever. “How deluded can one get?”
The core of the article was the fact that the NHS was spending some £1 billion on Management Consultants last year, and the NHS was getting precious little for this money in terms of efficiency savings /fully functioning IT systems.
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Further too “Can Government Policy Reduce IT Project Failure Rates? PART 1” it is clear that the UK Government needs to transplant US legislation to the UK with specific legislative adjustments in order to ensure that both the government and non-government sectors are treated equally i.e
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Quite recently, I had dinner with a couple who have been friends of my family for many years. Unfortunately we got onto a subject I am very passionate about which is IT Project Management. The topic was, “Can the government put together legislation necessary to eradicate the Wild West that is the IT industry?” My own partner Jackie and her friend Jeanett (a consultant with LOGICA) were convinced that the problems, behind the annual 70% IT project failure rate were “totally beyond the control of the government”.
Please Do Something Stupid!!
I pointed out during a challenging exchange that the only reason why the building and engineering industries had 95% + project success rates is because of strong regulation /legislation backed up by local government inspection and enforced professionalism i.e. need for chartered qualifications for architects, surveyors and engineers etc.
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When I started up this Blog some weeks ago, I aimed to make three postings a week. Unfortunately, it would seem that I have failed at the first hurdle due to ill health. I am currently in hospital with a severe Kidney infection. An x ray yesterday indicated that a number of small Kidney stones are aggravating my condition. All I can say is that irrespective of the diagnosis, my one preoccupation is PAIN RELIEF and keeping strangers out of my bed. YEAP you heard it, keeping strangers from sleeping with me!
Whilst being beside myself with pain, I have been tortured by being put next to someone called “Donald” who normally lives in a nursing home and who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Last night it took two security guards to restrain him from getting into my bed 
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Whilst chomping through my Mac Donald’s breakfast (mmmm ?) and working my way through the Daily Mail newspaper I read an article entitled “The Best Ever…for management consultants”. The article was a rant about the fact that the NHS spent an estimated £1 billion on Management Consultants last year, and that Dr Paul Miller, leader of Britain’s hospitital doctors (Chairman of the British Medical Association Consultants Committee), mocked Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s recent boast that the HNS has had its best year ever.
He rightly stated “This has been the NHS’s best year ever….for management consultants…for losing staff…for wasting money,’ Dr Miller, (one of the “Great & The Good” or a “Jedi” as I like to call them), spoke out against the ‘dark-side’ of the IT Industry (the “money machine” management consultants).
Brave man!!
Dr Miller stated at the BMA’s annual consultants conference recently “that management consultants charged the public sector an estimated £3 billion in 2005”. He then went on to say “that it was hard to avoid the conclusion that we are working in a service which is being broken by policies which don’t work, devised by officials who have resigned, implemented by managers who don’t believe, on staff in disbelief and patients without a say. “Hear Hear” in my view.
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