{"id":1617,"date":"2006-10-01T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2006-10-01T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:29:23","slug":"how-to-make-a-computer-system-and-an-nhs-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"How to make a computer system, and an NHS, work&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Tim Worstall&#8217;s weekly <a href = \"http:\/\/timworstall.typepad.com\/timworstall\/2006\/10\/britblog_roundu.html\">Britblog Roundup<\/a> (a particularly good crop this week) I&#8217;ve found an excellent, obviously very informed Comment is Free piece by Daniel Davies about how continual &#8220;reforms&#8221; are making life impossible not just for NHS staff and teachers, but also for <a href = \"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/daniel_davies\/2006\/09\/dont_just_do_something_stand_t.html\">computer programmers<\/a>. One big government system, (and in-house government not contracted-out government) has worked). But at least one factor in that is that change was specifically barred while it was being set up.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of something I was taught very early on as an editor &#8211; not to use the word &#8220;reform&#8221; in a story &#8211; since that implied a value judgement about the action. You should say &#8220;changes&#8221; or similar. Sadly this doesn&#8217;t seem to have made it to London &#8211; I do try occasionally, but I&#8217;m swimming against the tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Tim Worstall&#8217;s weekly Britblog Roundup (a particularly good crop this week) I&#8217;ve found an excellent, obviously very informed Comment is Free piece by Daniel Davies about how continual &#8220;reforms&#8221; are making life impossible not just for NHS staff and teachers, but also for computer programmers. One big government system, (and in-house government not contracted-out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}