Your experience is irrelevant if you make nonsensical points.
No one has been working on the USDS for a long time. It was created in 2014 to _improve archaic systems_. That was its mandate, and it came from the top.
Elon's not doing anything special or respectable. Decisive action and moronic flailing are not mutually exclusive.
And I'm not an expert, and maybe you're not in England, but NHS England has supported online appointment booking for about a decade. Can't imagine it's that different elsewhere in the UK based on a quick search.
Not only was it created in 2014, but it allows for a max of a 4 year tour. You know to keep bringing in fresh outsiders like the parent comment wanted.
> Obviously there were techy people in the NHS that knew that, but nobody was asking them.
Obviously someone did since there was "Choose and Book"[0] which was supposed to be live in 2005[1]. But, as anyone could have predicted, farming the contract out to consultants did not (and has continued to not!) work.
Also pharmacists were calling for themselves being able to electronically book GP appointments for (patients? customers?)[2]
An ICO report[3] also implies there were plans for online appointment bookings in 2006.
[0] Ok, not strictly GP appointments but NHS appointments nonetheless.
> I booked my first doctors appointment online this week.. blah blah blah stupid selfish rant
You asked yourself how would the system work best for you. Not how would the system work best for everyone. Elderly people make up a large proportion of GP appointments. 20 years ago they weren’t going to be booking anything online. Even today there are many that won’t.
Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.
Your experience is irrelevant if you make nonsensical points.
No one has been working on the USDS for a long time. It was created in 2014 to _improve archaic systems_. That was its mandate, and it came from the top.
Elon's not doing anything special or respectable. Decisive action and moronic flailing are not mutually exclusive.
And I'm not an expert, and maybe you're not in England, but NHS England has supported online appointment booking for about a decade. Can't imagine it's that different elsewhere in the UK based on a quick search.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp-online-services/about-the-prog...
Not only was it created in 2014, but it allows for a max of a 4 year tour. You know to keep bringing in fresh outsiders like the parent comment wanted.
> Obviously there were techy people in the NHS that knew that, but nobody was asking them.
Obviously someone did since there was "Choose and Book"[0] which was supposed to be live in 2005[1]. But, as anyone could have predicted, farming the contract out to consultants did not (and has continued to not!) work.
Also pharmacists were calling for themselves being able to electronically book GP appointments for (patients? customers?)[2]
An ICO report[3] also implies there were plans for online appointment bookings in 2006.
[0] Ok, not strictly GP appointments but NHS appointments nonetheless.
[1] https://www.digitalhealth.net/2005/01/e-booking-to-miss-its-...
[2] https://www.digitalhealth.net/2005/12/pharmacists-call-for-g...
[3] https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/1042390/sur...
I hate to break it to, but this administration is not out to “fix all the obviously archaic systems in government” - they are there to destroy it.
Think stripping out the copper wiring rather than doing a remodeling.
> I booked my first doctors appointment online this week.. blah blah blah stupid selfish rant
You asked yourself how would the system work best for you. Not how would the system work best for everyone. Elderly people make up a large proportion of GP appointments. 20 years ago they weren’t going to be booking anything online. Even today there are many that won’t.
> Elderly people blah blah stupid dumb nonsense
Elderly people can still book over the phone. Use your brain.
Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.
1 reply →
Not a good analogy or comparison to what is going on.