As I suggested when Dido Harding was appointed to run the Track & Trace program, she was and remains completely and utterly the wrong person to be in charge of anything important. I have absolutely no axe to grind with her as an individual, she might well be a decent person but so are millions of other UK citizens and they were not considered qualified to run the critical Track & Trace program.
My limited insight as to her suitability comes from work I was involved with when she was CEO of TalkTalk. So many people told her and her senior management team of the real risk they faced from illegal access to their IT & Comms systems but they refused to take the advice seriously, refused to invest in adequate security processes and even failed to install security hardware & software they had been given FOC until it was too late and they were well and truly hacked.
In her defense you could argue she paid people to do this job and they failed, but even if that was true, her handling of the situation once it became public has become a text book example of how to turn a serious problem in to a crisis. In my opinion she is not up to this or any other important leadership role and I sincerely hope that her appointment is terminated asap, moreover I want the process of her selection to be a matter of scrutiny when we finally get the C19 public inquiry.
The latest failing Track & Trace failing revealed today is detailed below in an official reply. It beggars belief
If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they’re positive or negative.
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The rules are so simple that the man who made them couldn't remember them...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54342688
He looks more and more like a man who is drowning in self doubt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54342688
He looks more and more like a man who is drowning in self doubt.
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Government Minister doesn't know, either. Put up for R4 Today programme, restrictions coming in tonight, doesn't know what they are.
Government Minister doesn't know, either. Put up for R4 Today programme, restrictions coming in tonight, doesn't know what they are.
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And then there was Education minister Gillian Keegan. She was unable to clarify whether the new restrictions stopped people meeting outside in pub and restaurant gardens, as well as inside.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: "I don't know the answer to that question."
Ms Keegan was pressed on how people were supposed to keep up to date with the latest restrictions when ministers could not but said: "I'm sorry I can't answer that question.
"I'm sure there are many people who could - I don't represent the North East."
The rules would be "communicated very clearly" to the people affected, she said.
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"I don't represent the North East" has got to be the biggest cop out yet. What she's saying is that, apparently, ministers are only briefed on things affecting their own constituencies. No, sorry, Gillian. Pull the other one. Nobody, the PM included, top of the government right down to thew bottom, knows what's actually going on because the "guidelines" are blurred, fragmented, and basically' not fit for effin purpose.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: "I don't know the answer to that question."
Ms Keegan was pressed on how people were supposed to keep up to date with the latest restrictions when ministers could not but said: "I'm sorry I can't answer that question.
"I'm sure there are many people who could - I don't represent the North East."
The rules would be "communicated very clearly" to the people affected, she said.
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"I don't represent the North East" has got to be the biggest cop out yet. What she's saying is that, apparently, ministers are only briefed on things affecting their own constituencies. No, sorry, Gillian. Pull the other one. Nobody, the PM included, top of the government right down to thew bottom, knows what's actually going on because the "guidelines" are blurred, fragmented, and basically' not fit for effin purpose.
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I'd like to see a more educational approach. Instead of trying to regulate every scenario and then pretend that it can be enforced (when it obviously cannot) be transparent about the different levels of risk inherent in different activities.
That way you dont have to remember a long list of caveats, but you do have to think.
That way you dont have to remember a long list of caveats, but you do have to think.
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This is what happens when you (Public Health England) use a spreadsheet (Excel using old file format) to do a job that should really have been done by a database (eg MariaDB).
And that's the trouble with spreadsheets. You have users that think that they are IT experts because they know some of the ins and outs of Excel. When in reality they know fuck all. And should have gotten someone who knows what they are doing to sort this data handling out.
The joke of it is that it wouldn't take someone who knew what they were doing long to knock up a SQL database, import the data and then start working with it in meaningful ways.
All of this is about what I'd expect. The people working at Public Health England are medical specialists and bureaucrats. It's the sort of IT cock-up you get from organisations like that.
This is what happens when you (Public Health England) use a spreadsheet (Excel using old file format) to do a job that should really have been done by a database (eg MariaDB).
And that's the trouble with spreadsheets. You have users that think that they are IT experts because they know some of the ins and outs of Excel. When in reality they know fuck all. And should have gotten someone who knows what they are doing to sort this data handling out.
The joke of it is that it wouldn't take someone who knew what they were doing long to knock up a SQL database, import the data and then start working with it in meaningful ways.
All of this is about what I'd expect. The people working at Public Health England are medical specialists and bureaucrats. It's the sort of IT cock-up you get from organisations like that.
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Rule #1 - You don't bring a spreadsheet to a database fight.
A £432M contract and theyre using a £139.00 Excel license and a couple of typists.
A £432M contract and theyre using a £139.00 Excel license and a couple of typists.
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