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NHS staff are too expensive to employ…

…but at the same time they are being treated badly with the redundancy processes that are in place at the moment. For whoever is going through it at the moment, do things to look after yourselves and your family and do not think that your employer has any loyalty to you, not matter how much

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2026 – it is going to be tough in the NHS

For any form of consultancy trying to provide services into the NHS things are going to be tough. There will be an unwillingness to spend money, a more risk based approach to what organisations can get away with (if you do not get caught, they will take the risk) and generally they will only spend

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Is NHS Mail dead?

If you use NHS Mail, some big changes are coming and with 40% of the NHS no longer using it, unless something major happens more organisations will move away from it. The big problem is that since it was created around 25 years ago, times have moved on. The idea of a single email address

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When do you notice the generational difference?

You notice it when staff cannot put letters in an envelope properly and the subject heading is clear for all to see. The recent data breach at University of Derby was totally avoidable as the redundancy letters were being put in the post.

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IG compliance – easier or harder?

Very definitely harder. Staff are stepping up but I do not believe that senior management or the organisation itself is stepping up. So long as IG remains a “hidden service” it will get worse in the same way that so long as NHS organisations do not understand their responsibilities around Subject Access Requests or FOI

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NHS staff related SAR are hell…

…and we knew that it would happen. Staff have been stuck in complaints processes for so long that they no longer are prepared delays or you saying that getting them what they want could take months. Do I believe that all staff complaints are justified? Absolutely No because when you are forced to read through

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GDPR is not the be all and end all

Any decent Data Protection Officer or GDPR “consultant” should be able to tell you that. If they cannot, then find someone else as quickly as possible because otherwise you are going to spend a lot of money very quickly and find that it is wasted.

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AI, AI or not to AI

AI has its place and that is clear because we all need an edge. It is also clear that AI is loved or loathed. I have also dealt with my first query which was “I need xxx system that is not dependent on AI” so once all the hype Once the hype has gone there

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