Do you get a veto over every proposed change in your employers IT system that has any impact on you? No? Okay, that's the difference.I don't know what happens where you work but I certainly don't get a say in company's worldwide IT strategy and certainly not involved in keeping an eye on things to ensure that my computer is going to work tomorrow. I am not paid to do that. I get paid to do other things. But hey lets blame all staff for every shortcoming. Bloody lazy public sector. Blaming IT failures on nurses, doctors, cleaning staff and others in the HSE is like blaming the pilot for crashing a plane that wasn't maintained properly because the airline decided to save costs and use cheap parts. Why didn't the pilot take the plane apart before flying it? Oh right, because other people are paid to that job and he trusted them to do it.
Do you get a veto over every proposed change in your employers IT system that has any impact on you? No? Okay, that's the difference.
No, but they, through their union, get to veto any substantive change or reform which would standardise everything from contracts to IT systems.Either do HSE staff. Do you think they held a vote to decide to upgrade off Windows 7 or not??
I don't know what happens where you work but I certainly don't get a say in company's worldwide IT strategy and certainly not involved in keeping an eye on things to ensure that my computer is going to work tomorrow.
But hey lets blame all staff for every shortcoming. Bloody lazy public sector. Blaming IT failures on nurses, doctors, cleaning staff and others in the HSE is like blaming the pilot for crashing a plane...
I do get a say, yes. But just in part of course, because I only manage a small part of a massive international infrastructure. But, in my company, I manage my piece for the enterprise, so the decisions my team and I make for the technology areas we manage affect all our sites around the globe. Where my efficient organisation differs from the HSE is that there isn't an equivalent of my role in every single office around the world, all getting to make their own decisions on how to address each requirement.
Where did I all say nurses, doctors or cleaners were the issue here, or all staff? It's clearly not all staff, but it's the hundreds of decision makers, the decentralised and duplicated decision making and multiple vested interests all putting themselves before everything else. My wife works in a front line role in one of the major hospitals, I get to hear all her frustration about repeated failures in decision making, purchasing and procurement. Remember the Dail printer scandal? She has multiple similar stories from her hospital alone. She's not in a management role, but is involved in decision making on major contracts because her direct managers who are the decision makers for that service in that hospital have no idea what they're doing, so they delegate and she does it because if she doesn't, they end up with equipment they can't use.
You seem to believe that HSE staff are not making purchasing decisions, who do you think does?
That's the problem right there, thaat perception.The admin staff want to ensure paperwork is accurate and processed quickly. The lab technicians want to ensure testing is correct. The IT system admin guys want to ensure everything works and is safe. The majority of 'staff' are not paid to worry about IT software or infrastructure budgets. Majority of staff don't have any decision making involvement in procurement or IT. They rely on highly paid senior managers of which there are plenty of them in the HSE to this for them and dictate strategy and budgets.
So you would introduce a piece of local technology that would mean that your part of the organisation couldn't talk to another part in another country and you would still have a job?
You can have all the local staff you want making decisions on a decentralised basis but I bet you that you still have to adhere to 1000 policy and standard documents about what can be done and can't be done to ensure that there is some uniformity across the organisation in areas such as network security.
Otherwise you would have entity in Country deciding that skype was great and another entity deciding that Zoom was great and then arrange a conference call. Does your company have a Chief Technology Officer? I bet he does and I bet he doesn't let you do what you want with your local infrastructure and technology at the expense of the entire company.
But I am also sure there are thousands of people just like her in the Health Service that don't deserve to be included in the term 'staff' when discussing HSE failures..
Just like I am sure that there are plenty of wasters like in every organisation. They work for a dysfunctional organisation that has been a football for politicians to kick around, a weapon for trade unions and a cash cow for plenty of parasitic private companies.
People can do a great job while also being part of the problem. If the current system or process is inefficient and you are blocking changes which would improve it then you are part of the problem. At the same time you could be working you ass off, going above and beyond, in the existing inefficient system.But I am also sure there are thousands of people just like her in the Health Service that don't deserve to be included in the term 'staff' when discussing HSE failures
We need next day results (or 48 hour results at a minimum). We've had months to iron out the testing regime, but alas.
Yep, in a country with a lower per capita spend on healthcare than Ireland.By way of comparison - Denmark to roll out testing to the general population regardless of symptoms or risk status.
All adults in Denmark can be tested for coronavirus this week - The Copenhagen Post
Move is part of Denmark’s new national testing strategycphpost.dk
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