h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My sister has Cerebral Palsey, as is to be known as educationaly challenged, she can't even feed herself, as far as we're concerned she is disabled,My daugher has Semantic Pragmatic Disorder which is amild form of Autism, she can't cope in a normal school, I had to fight for 3 years to get her into a special school because the government said she had to be educated in a mainstream school, she is educationaly challenged but getting much better since being at the special school

Ok we are getting a lot of ideas and viewpoints here and seems the number of priorties to look at...

Health Service.

Education.

Laws.

Claim Culture.

Polictical Correctness.

Now how could we look at solving them... especially the 2 and last 2 as Reefgirl came up with the idea of military personal and someone else suggested a lessinging of admin to save money....

well you could replace incompetant management in the NHS and LEA's with people from industry/the private sector, who know how to run things properly. One other point, I don't know if maybe I mentioned this on the Manifesto thread, but a personal gripe of mine is public transport and The privatisation there of. You cannot have an effective and efficient integrated transport system if all the different branches of the public transport system are privately owned/run/managed.

*people from industry/the private sector, who know how to run things properly*

like the railways?
the idea that private sector management is always better than that in the public sector is 1 of those commonsense myths I was talking about

I agree about private sector.. particularly airline executives in the U.S. - not a handful of firing neurons between the lot of 'em..

Traveller in Time on the steam engine
"
Health Service.
Education.
-Quality and Accessibility


Laws.
Claim Culture.
Polictical Correctness.
-Common sense


Infrastructure (including public transport)
Communication / Technology
-Available Accessibility and some Quality


I think the bureaucratical overload can be reduced in places. Just keep in mind the ideal command sructure is somewhat like a pyramid. after some bad years the big heap, workfloor staff, has been reduced. If we manage good, this will increase again in most sectors. "

Traveller in Time on the news
"Well, I am afraid Brittish Airways is a good example on this side of the ocean. Typical a reduced ground floor as the vice president has announced to do the desk job on 'bank hollidays' "

it might possibly be all airlines... maybe jet fuel damages brain cells or something...

Going back to health and waiting lists

Fast track hospital's were mentioned a few years ago and Haslar was turned into one, they now deal with the operations you have to wait years for, hips, knees ,shoulders, that kind of thing and I've overheard local people talking about having their waiting time halved after being asked if they don't mind having a military doctor, we need more of these. Also there is one propblem with staffing hospitals with the military, during war hospital's will have no staff

Traveller in Time on his head
"No problem, if we are world wide, there will be no war left for them to take party.

I always had the impression the military was the perfect example of bureaucracy?"

I suppose it is, but if you give an order it get's done, no one will say we have to discuss this, we have to put it in committe, put it to the vote, thereby saving six months of red tape

The Armed Forces seem very efficient
The MOD is a different matter
Just look at all the problems over equipment in Iraq
How much is due to penny-pinching and how much to bureaucracy I don't know

Traveller in Time on top
"Can someone please enlighten me?
I always have problems with abbreviations.

(Definitely not army issue)"

MOD is Ministry of Defence

Traveller in Time on his head
"Well, then we will keep the workforce for the hospitals.
And assign the 'Ministry of Defence' to ditribute the profitable substances. (this will then again reduce the workload of police force, border patrol . . .)"

Sounds good...

With the added bonus being the Armed Forces don't go on strike

Scan,

I agree with you about PC titles. Sweeping generalisations are part of the problem and what a person is called should be left to that person, and that is confirmed by Reefgirl's post.

We spend so much time tiptoeing around trying not to upset people en masse, we don't notice when we actually do upset an individual

Websailor

Wow...

This is the first journal entry that I've written that has gotten 100 posts!