I made a chunk of comments on the white paper was I was reading it, which can all be found in other places. While this blog is a place to air my thoughts to the empty space of the internet, not all my voices are the same.
Overall, at first glance, I think its a good thing. Which is odd as I'm a bleeding heart liberal. Maybe its the working inside the NHS on the secondary care side as blinded me to a few things. Or maybe I'm just flat out wrong, which is a good possibility.
Though I do have a dislike for PCTs in some areas, in addition to the fact that the whitepaper pushes the uses of Choose and Book, which means hopefully I get to keep my job. It does work for the NHS, it does do what it should. People just need to be made to do it right.
If GP health commissioning goes through and Choose and Book is the one of the few ways and the most direct for all regular services, that will really push the usage up. Victory will be mine! However I will give to the point that cut masses of admin not directly tied to healthcare has downsides. Like all these lovely reports that get produced and I love to read.
Data is important. Treatment patients might be the front end of the NHS and its a very big front end, but its nothing compared to all the data you can draw out and work with. Though that's just my own personal thing and really, so much of the data is way beyond me anyway. I just like that fact it's there and one day I could play with it all.
But in other, way way more exciting news, the details for Choose and Book release 5.0 hit today. Its been coming for a while, but now there are actually pages up and a solid list of changes are there to see. I'm really looking forwards to. Should makes a few bits of work a lot easier and give hospital's a few new tricks to play around with.
Of course, every CaB update cause a few things to break, but fixing them can be sort of fun. Though I don't really trust the date, it'll probably slip back a bit as it always does. Which is a shame as its the first major Choose and Book update I've been around to be excited for. I did a lot with 4.2 and SNOMED, but that wasn't really fun, just hard work.
As with all, time will tell
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