Tuesday, June 13, 2006

I've just written to the head of IT in the NHS asking for a job...



God, I've been writing a lot emails recently. Anyway, a few days ago, I had a rather hurried conversation with my Dad in which he said something about the NHS paying Fujitsu millions of pounds, because even though Fujitsu are behind in delivering whatever it is they have been contracted to deliver to the NHS, the NHS is getting screwed big time over some sort of small print involving seconding NHS staff to Fujitsu.

I did some Googling and found that the story appeared in 'Computer Weekly', which is a fabulous read if you are interested in who is getting screwed by who in the IT world. The story was then picked up by The Guardian.

Here is the link to the story in The Guardian...

NHS trusts pay millions in fines to suppliers of delayed IT system

Here is what I wrote to the head of IT at the NHS...

Dear Richard Granger,

I am writing to you concerning the penalties you have agreed to pay Fujitsu in regard to your decision not to second staff to them as had been agreed.

I am one of a huge of number of programmers in this country unable to find IT work. I was a software developer in the Medical Informatics Unit at Cambridge University up until that unit closed down. This unit was partially funded by the NHS with a view to providing IT solutions to the NHS. I therefore have some experience of the IT issues in the NHS.

If there is any way that the decision to pay the penalty can be reversed, by employing me and a number of other people in my position, I would be very glad to hear from you.

Yours sincerely,

Sunday, June 11, 2006

writetothem.com



I just saw on the cam.misc usenet newsgroup that someone had written to his MP to complain about the lack of any real dissent from the government on Guantanamo, especially now they are calling 'suicides' of inmates in their cells 'an act of war'. He did it at writetothem.com. So I did the same. I wrote:

Dear James Paice,

I am afraid I don't know what your exact position is on on the War on Terror, or The Long War, as I believe it is now called but surely you must be appalled by the fact that the American military are now calling the tragic deaths of prisoners of war incarcerated without charge for years on end in an illegal prison as an 'Act of War'.

As one of your constituents I urge you strongly to petition the Government to use its influence to urge the American regime to close down Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay and have its inmates tried within a legitimate legal system or set free.

Yours sincerely,