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The NHS and your boss might not be worried, but from the customer ie patient end of things I would not like to think of NHS equipment service history being stored on an access database. There are a number of commercial apps specifically developed for managing equipment service information. Additionally I would have assumed the NHS had licensing agreements in place with Oracle and Microsoft for their technologies. I would guess your boss developed it himself. is proud of his development and nobody with the IT organisation of your trust knows anything about it, can support it or audited the app.
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OK, in order to answer this, a little of my background. For 20 years I put in place the IT systems required to support many of the worlds power stations during the engineering, procurement,erection and into operation processes. Part of this was the development of equipment databases. including combined cycle, coal and nuclear powered plants
In power stations when things go wrong. People tend to die For equipment databases you would normally start at Design critera Operating environment supplier information maintenance schedule and procedures operating procedures maintenance qualification operation qualification then into actual who did what when and why etc. Such things as qualification, ie who is authorised to do what etc cuts into the data protection act and you need to ensure the app is registered. Now assuming something has gone wrong. Investigators would want to use the database to quickly established what had been done with that piece of plant, by whom, when, why, who had signed it off etc. How do you ensure operators/maintainers are aware of the latest operation/maintenance procedures etc. So really you need a single source of data, linked to document libraries, linked to your job scheduling etc. How then to you ensure when something has gone wrong that no tinkering with the evidence takes place. Access isn't robust. there needs to be a multi tiered hierarchy that ensure separation of the application from the data. How can you ensure that records cannot be changed. Control of the data, should not be the department tasked with acting upon it. Do you not have auditors, process improvement etc. I am sure they would take a dim view of this sort of development
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Thanks for your help Tim, I'm going to note some of this down if thats OK and put some of these points to the boss? Last edited by andyb; 30-04-08 at 07:19 AM. |
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I thought the NHS would have an in-house I.T. department which initiated ideas, resolved problems and could be called upon to help with all manner of similar queries.
I now have a picture of various NHS Departments / Trusts etc working on ad-hoc projects as and when, with no processes of communication within. |
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If you work on the basis that the average UK organisation employing 250 people might have an IT department consisting of five people (1 manager, two server technicians and two grunts), that works out to one member of IT staff per 50 employees. Scale that up and you have an IT department of 26000 people - in itself an organisation the same size as ICI. It's these staggering numbers that result in the seemingly fractured environment in which we work. The organisation for which I work covers approximately 1 million patients, and in the area we cover I can think off the top of my head of over 100 different NHS sites, using more than forty different main clinical software products. To make all of these products talk to each other is a simply ridiculous project, but one on which billions of pounds of our taxes are being wasted. Try finding an IT department anywhere in the UK which can cover the myriad different technologies, skills and products 24/7/365. If you can, the chances are it's going to be in the NHS. It has some of the most highly skilled and experienced IT teams and individual staff you will find ANYWHERE - it also has some of the most woefully lacking in skill. The problems come from the sheer scale of the environment - not any lack of processes or communication - believe me, we work in one of the most over-controlled environments in the world. Last edited by Dan; 30-04-08 at 08:11 PM. |
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