How not to lose 16,000 Covid-19 test results: a data scientist’s view
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A culture of rigour, discipline, and I will add of "getting things done", is sorely needed.
More generally, the track and trace system in the UK is poor. This has a lot to do with the above but also with lack of political courage and leadership.
Unfortunately it is difficult to suggest that the NHS might need to change, it is taboo subject.
You're being polite.
One might suggest, however, that when setting up a scheme to deal with a public health matter and to create technologies to assist with that, hiring some experts on public health and technology might have been a good idea. It looks like a lot of the senior figures actually have a background in retail and the recruitment process was more like staffing a commercial call centre than a medical helpline.
(The article is not wrong about the data processing side either, of course. How these systems meet even basic data protection standards, never mind the more stringent requirements for processing sensitive data, is still a mystery to me.)
Why not call in Crapita or one of the leading consultancy firms to handle it? That will get you even better (worse you mean?) results at wildly inflated prices as well
Why not call in Crapita or one of the leading consultancy firms to handle it? That will get you even better results at wildly inflated prices as well.
But how we start by explaining this. Does the author expect us to believe they were using Excel 2003?
"I’m not going to complain about Public Health England (PHE) using excel to merge the test results from each test centre"
What actually happened, then perhaps we move onto solutions.
(The solution most likely being some sort of Hamming code/check sum, the number of cases is also included with the data for instance)
I didn't see it you who posted your article. That was a cunt comment.
I dont agree with you but I should have worded that differently.