O/T Coronavirus Thread (4)

[Exiletyke]

Whatever happened with that contract the Gov handed out to your former Chairman?

Are you referring to our former owner & Isoft?

[flourbasher]

Wasn't that contract for the NHS patient database where all medical depts should have had instant access to historic records.

Still not up and running now.

CSC the American IT company also fleeced the NHS without delivering

[WanChaiMiller]

Wasn't that contract for the NHS patient database where all medical depts should have had instant access to historic records.

Still not up and running now.

CSC the American IT company also fleeced the NHS without delivering

How much public money ended up bankrolling our near neighbours.

[flourbasher]

How much public money ended up bankrolling our near neighbours.

Yes indeed. Perhaps The Uk taxpayer paid for BFC,s brief appearance in the prem and funded the high profile signings.
So maybe Tony Blair and then the Conservatives weren't actually to blame for the underfunded NHS.
Some people on here have debated this for about two years and all long the answer was much closer to home

[great_fire]

Well I hope when he was being treated for cancer he gave at least some of that money back.

[millertop]

Senior Conservative MPs are urging Boris Johnson to consider changing the 2m social distancing rule to 1.5m, amid fears for the hospitality sector.

[KerrAvon]

Track and trace isn't a medical procedure though it's purely a management tool to monitor the movements of people and therefore any illness they might have. It's fairly simple to set up too in so much as all you need is some resource and a decent communication system. I t would have been within the capabilities of the uk to divert some of the vastly oversubscribed NHS responders to this task and asked the comms companies to react quickly.

Track and trace could be applied to a range of virus, diseases Etc as it,s merely a way of knowing where a medical issue is and where it's spreading so I don't think the govt could use the excuse that they didn't know what they were dealing with. It's a bit of a red herring.

With Singapore being a Commonwealth country it should have been a fairly easy to ask for advice on how they dealt with previous pandemics and they would have been more forthcoming than asking China. It's a simple management technique to follow best practice where others have already got some of the answers

I'm not Govt bashing here as they've done some faulous things such as setting up the temporary hospitals but I really think they missed a trick.

I have said from the outset on these threads that the issue of whether testing capacity in this country could have been ramped up sooner is one that needs to be looked at. It is almost certainly the case that the lack of that capacity was behind the decision of the government to abandon the initial track and contain phase of its response.

My point wasn't primarily about governments learning from governments. That learning is valuable, but there are limits upon that value when seeking to apply it to a different illness. My point was that countries that had to deal with SARS and MERS have populations that have a far better understanding of the risks and the needs to take steps to protect themselves than the UK population.

[great_fire]

Senior Conservative MPs are urging Boris Johnson to consider changing the 2m social distancing rule to 1.5m, amid fears for the hospitality sector.

I think it was pretty random anyway and we're the one country doing it.

Other countries it's 1 metre or 1.5

[Exiletyke]

I think it was pretty random anyway and we're the one country doing it.

Other countries it's 1 metre or 1.5

Haven't you been paying attention over the last few months
It was on scientific/medical advice

[Exiletyke]

Yes indeed. Perhaps The Uk taxpayer paid for BFC,s brief appearance in the prem and funded the high profile signings.
So maybe Tony Blair and then the Conservatives weren't actually to blame for the underfunded NHS.
Some people on here have debated this for about two years and all long the answer was much closer to home

Not quite sure you understand the timeline flour
Prem year 1997
Former owner years started in 2006