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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Get Sacking – Path to Project Success
Friends know at their cost, not to get me on the subject of IT project failures when dinning out. My passion for this subject knows no bounds, having spent the best part of 20 years studying “The Madness” i.e. project failure rates of between 70% and 91% with projects cancellation rates of approximately 30% (Standish Group Report).
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