Architect of UK’s hated Care.data scheme quits NHS, flees from Britain The architect of Blighty's hated Care.data scheme, Tim Kelsey, has today announced he will quit as the NHS's National Information Director. Kelsey will leave the British health service in December and take the new role of director at Australia’s telecoms biz Telstra Health next July. Curiously, the NHS did not list Care.data …
"Over the past three years Tim has brought his infectious energy and creative expertise to the vital drive for open, transparent and technology-enabled health services."
Rarely have I seen such a blatant misrepresentation of the facts...
Oh wait, this is a British Civil-Servant... as you were...
Look out Aussies, you're next.
If it is the best news all week, it must have been a pretty poor week for news. He should be inside, doing time. Not only does he not recognise that the Data Protection Act applies within the NHS, he got that specifically written in to the latest Health & Social Care Act. All your medical records belong to him.
I wonder what he will have on his memory stick when he flies out? A copy of the HSCIC database, or will it include GP records as well?
The scheme has been subject to severe delays ...
His life will be easier in Oz, where such things seem just to get rammed through. (One of many antipodean El Reg stories on the topic.)
I've always had some trouble with that saying. Why would rats remain on a sinking ship? What is so wrong with getting off a non-functional floating device? Are all the human survivors from sinkings analogous to rats?
I have no liking for this venal, lying tosser, and I'm glad to see him going (though I'm sorry for the fact he will inflict more shit on the already beleaguered Assies), but the saying just seems odd.
the saying is due to the fact that on old wooden ships often the first indication that a vessel was taking water and sinking was when the cargo holds were flooded, driving the rats to the upper decks where they became visible. Normally rats hide - it takes something excessive to make them leave their hideways and appear. Something like a flood offering instant drowning...
and its Architect should be GENEROUSLY rewarded for the Success! Instead we cruelly send him packing, in chains, with festering wounds, on a 3-month long journey with no sunlight in order to toil and sweat in the colonies down under, until they send him off to America!
we would both lose. The difference between culture would sink the shipas both sides have do idea what do with each other system. Americans would lose because they would get on face book and bash their boss and at the end of a libel law suit
The British would lose it when we tell them you only get week off for for vacation and 3 sick days. Of course the British might find it weird having to hide behind 3 inches(7.62mm) of bullet proof glass. Just remember don't have you bacon. If you get stuck in the bay are and need to go to 60m(96km) better make it a day trim or get up at 4am.
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