PJC Journal – Original

Another National
Database failure, £40bn of taxpayer money later, and it still isn’t working, is
likely never to be finished, and the information held in it, is in the majority
incorrect.

A leading group
of academics have today published a report into
the progress of the NPfIT programme within the NHS.

Fraud and FAILURE are the
only words to describe this government plan. 

A massive fraud
by the government, this dossier is damning in highlighting failure after
failure, companies taking monies in excess of £900,000 even though they were
going bust, consultancies pulling out of the programme, penalty payments to
suppliers by the government, cover-ups, mis-information, incorrect data, and an
apparent lack of written objectives.

That’s on top of
the concerns about security, Data Protection, data sharing, potential for
misuse of data and uploading data without permission. 

Despite being
told by the medical profession that such a national database provided no
medical benefits, was not needed, not wanted and not supported, the government
pushed ahead and has wasted to date £40bn of taxpayers money.

How much use
would the £40bn have been to the taxpayers of Britain if it had been given to the Health Trusts
to use on front line health care.

Time for the
government to put a stop to this.  Dont even waste more money on a public enquiry.  just Halt the NPfIT now.

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Another National
Database failure, £40bn of taxpayer money later, and it still isn’t working, is
likely never to be finished, and the information held in it, is in the majority
incorrect.

A leading group
of academics have today published a report into
the progress of the NPfIT programme within the NHS.

Fraud and FAILURE are the
only words to describe this government plan. 

A massive fraud
by the government, this dossier is damning in highlighting failure after
failure, companies taking monies in excess of £900,000 even though they were
going bust, consultancies pulling out of the programme, penalty payments to
suppliers by the government, cover-ups, mis-information, incorrect data, and an
apparent lack of written objectives.

That’s on top of
the concerns about security, Data Protection, data sharing, potential for
misuse of data and uploading data without permission. 

Despite being
told by the medical profession that such a national database provided no
medical benefits, was not needed, not wanted and not supported, the government
pushed ahead and has wasted to date £40bn of taxpayers money.

How much use
would the £40bn have been to the taxpayers of Britain if it had been given to the Health Trusts
to use on front line health care.

Time for the
government to put a stop to this.  Dont even waste more money on a public enquiry.  just Halt the NPfIT now.

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In an article
today in the Guardian,
it quotes the latest report by the National
Centre for Social Research. also known as NatCen, called British Social Attitudes: the 23rd Report – Perspectives on a changing society,  that was published today.

The Guardian begins
its article with

An overwhelming
majority of people in Britain are willing to surrender civil liberties
to help tackle the threat of terrorism, and  

The survey found
seven in every 10 people think compulsory identity cards for all adults would
be “a price worth paying” to reduce the threat of terrorism. Eight in
10 say the authorities should be able to tap the phones of people suspected of involvement
in terrorism, open their mail and impose electronic tagging or home curfews.

This is NOT what the report said, and the Guardian comments have been
taken out of context.

The Report, which failed to publish in its press release the
questions that were asked, concluded that

Neither fear of terrorism nor
the 7 July 2005 suicide bombings in London influenced public views on
banning peaceful protests; denying the right to a trial by jury to people
charged with a terrorist related crime; or following terror suspects, tapping
their phones and opening their mail.

But the more fearful people are about terrorism, the more likely they are to
be prepared to give up the following freedoms:

• When it comes to allowing
the police to detain terror suspects for more than a week or so without charge,
34% of those who are least fearful about terrorism think it is unacceptable, compared
to only 12% of those who are most fearful about terrorism.

• Twice as many of the least
fearful about terrorism think that compulsory identity cards are unacceptable
(41%) than the most fearful (21%).

Which is why
the government is spending so much time, money and effort to keep the
population scared.

This
is propaganda in its most unacceptable form, a corruption of the truth, and shame on the Guardian for
being a part of it.

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In an article
today in the Guardian,
it quotes the latest report by the National
Centre for Social Research. also known as NatCen, called British Social Attitudes: the 23rd Report – Perspectives on a changing society,  that was published today.

The Guardian begins
its article with

An overwhelming
majority of people in Britain are willing to surrender civil liberties
to help tackle the threat of terrorism, and  

The survey found
seven in every 10 people think compulsory identity cards for all adults would
be “a price worth paying” to reduce the threat of terrorism. Eight in
10 say the authorities should be able to tap the phones of people suspected of involvement
in terrorism, open their mail and impose electronic tagging or home curfews.

This is NOT what the report said, and the Guardian comments have been
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The Report, which failed to publish in its press release the
questions that were asked, concluded that

Neither fear of terrorism nor
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• When it comes to allowing
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• Twice as many of the least
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(41%) than the most fearful (21%).

Which is why
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I am making a
call for the government to set up a public access database showing the costs of
Britain hosting of the Olympic Games in 2012.
 

I am going to
write to Tessa Jowell, outlining why I believe that the only way she can
possibly gain public support for taxes to be used to pay for this, is if the
public have complete faith that the money being spent is being used properly. 

One of the
problems is that the public don’t believe that government is capable of
handling such a large project, and costs have risen on almost a weekly basis.

The latest shock
use of our money is a £400 million charge for a “delivery partner to
exercise cost control”. 

Every penny of
the costs involved in our nation hosting these Olympic games should be open to
public scrutiny.  Not after the event,
but during the planning, building and delivery of all of the Olympic
facilities, including any ‘consultants fees’.

This database
must be made available, clearly showing spend to date, contracts awarded, cross
referenced to those contracts, consultants fees, cross referenced to the
consultants, their contracts and what is expected of them, and where ‘incidental
costs’ are shown, a full breakdown of those costs and who receives them.

This Database
must be kept up to date in real time, so that we can see the spend as it
happens. 

Not a single part
of this Database must be allowed to be exempt from the Freedom of Information
Act, it must be totally transparent showing absolutely everything.

Only then will
the British public feel that this government and its ministers does not have
its fingers in this part of the public pie, either directly or indirectly.

We must also
insist that contracts being drawn up with suppliers for this monumental project
must include ‘fixed price’ clauses which include no amendments availability for
inflation.  They should have made
allowance for inflation in their original bid, like any other businessman.

Contractors must
not be allowed to bid low to win the contract, knowing that they can make up
the money with change requests.  This is
the norm for government IT projects, and must not be allowed during the Olympic
Games project. 

Severe financial penalties
must be included to deter Contractors bidding, knowing that they cannot fulfil
those contracts without asking for extra funds.

We must also
insist that failure to meet gateway reviews will result in the contract with
that particular supplier being cancelled, not renewed as is the case with the MoD
contract for the MoD's defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project. 

By spending vast
amounts on hiring consultants to manage your cost controls, you are admitting that
government is not fit for purpose. By initiating a database of this kind, you
wont have to spend £400 million on cost control, the public will do that for
free.

If the government
wants to build databases, this is the kind of database that we want to see, and
display true open government.  If you
dare.

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