The 4 fundamental errors leading to the lost coronavirus cases which Matt Hancock does not understand

 I WRITE TO SAVE LIVES

In response to criticism about some of my posts that have provided constructive criticism of this Government, I have sometimes prefaced my posts with "I write to save lives" 🚑 See the 4 points below 👉👉👉👉 When the country is led and governed by people who very clearly have been chosen not for their competence and capability, but just for their "loyalty" to a failed ideology (check out Attorney General, Home Secretary, Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary etc) then that puts lives at risk, All the news about Priti Patel focuses on the distractions she trails such as wave machines and Ascension Island. Have you stopped to think what it would be like if we had a proper Home Secretary who might in the midst of the biggest peacetime crisis this country has faced give some attention to how things are at home in the UK? The professional capabilities of Justine Greening, Rory Stewart, Jeremy Hunt, Alistair Burt and Dominic Grieve for example would benefit us, even if we just look within the ranks of people elected as Conservatives. But the most capable are not in command, and we are led by the incompetent who under valid criticism just scream for "support". 🙄 This approach mean that more people die. I write to save lives.🚑 Having an honest and competent Government would save lives. #IDontBegPardon ____________________ There are at least four critical issues here, and Matt Hancock only understands one of them 👉1. A totally unsuitable IT tool was used, which could have been upgraded (to a more modern tool, still unsuitable, but without the limitation that their penny-pinching caused) for less than £100. (Hancock said in mitigation that a project was under way to replace the old system, but an upgrade to the latest Excel for the labs etc concerned could be done much quicker than that - it sounds like they still haven't done that). 👉2. If this was considered to be an “IT system”, it should have been tested to the required limits; obviously it wasn’t. 👉3. A life-critical IT “system” was operating in a mode where a single glitch could cause - and now will have caused - deaths, without any data assurance. No life-critical system should be vulnerable to a single-point of failure as this was, 👉4. There was not enough management attention on what the numbers and trends were indicating to spot the problem. The “system” was as important as a safety-critical system on the railway, but was developed with about as much rigour as might be used for a one-man business's accounts. (Yes, I ran my one-man business accounts on Excel initially, but as the business grew I switched to using the rigour of a controlled system). When such a massive multiple error occurs, direct your attention several levels up the organisation chart, probably to the top. Every one of these errors indicates that the organisation is approaching the task in a very amateurish way. Matt Hancock clearly does not understand this. If his response to challenge of his incorrect statements is "I will not have that" then he is the wrong person for the job.. People must be prepared to learn from their mistakes. He thinks that bodging a partial fix to error number 1 as it occurred last week solves the endemic problems.🙄 ...... My credentials for commenting on this: 40+ years with involvement with IT systems and large-scale change programmes; convened stakeholders across the railway industry to agree processes to ensure safety of overground 🚄🚃🚃 railways, and later co-ordinated safety process assurance for Jubilee/Northern/Piccadilly lines; called in to fix major programmes and projects going wrong, eg 400 people working on a system for the Benefits Agency with no overall plan; managed budgetary negotiations for many international development programmes including for the World Vision UK consortium the Sierra Leone Ebola💉 recovery (all burials, and 🚑🚑ambulance/hearse fleet, £19m budget) Google this if you want to see the 🔉sky news story: coronavirus-data-can-save-lives-data-can-cost-lives-and-this-latest-testing-blunder-will-likely-prove-it

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