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There’s at all times somebody who has the newest tech however can’t work out tips on how to use any of the settings, aside from play and cease. There’s at all times somebody who thinks expertise is the answer with out realising what the issue is.

Ever since Keir Starmer and his Labour cronies have been elected, I’ve suspected that individual is Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Government’s latest announcement of so-called “groundbreaking new tech” within the type of a instrument referred to as Cancer 360 proves to me that I’ve been proper all alongside.

Cancer 360 sounds just like the type of product dreamt up by a failing crew on The Apprentice with 5 minutes to go earlier than selecting an terrible brand. But as a substitute of all being fired by Lord Sugar, it’s the identify of a instrument that may supposedly remodel most cancers prognosis.

I want to suppose the moniker was thought up by somebody on the Department for Health who nonetheless can’t imagine they managed to get it previous their bosses. After all, it’s referred to as Cancer 360 and in the event you flip 360 levels you get again to precisely the place you began from.

As somebody who has realized the exhausting approach that the battle when you may have most cancers is attempting to get good therapy out of your hospital, I believe Cancer 360 is a superb thought in precept. Its purpose is to make sure tens of millions of sufferers obtain sooner most cancers prognosis and minimize therapy delays.

Anyone could be silly to say that these aren’t nice goals, nevertheless it simply exhibits how little the Health Secretary and the Government learn about how the NHS works. They need to have a system the place all my knowledge about exams, appointments, and coverings is in a single place.

This is a good suggestion in idea as a result of there are solely so many occasions I can sit in a session at which the medic copies outcomes from one hospital belief from my cellphone into his pocket book after which sorts them on to the pc system for his hospital belief — particularly after I’ve instructed simply emailing them to him.

But permitting hospital trusts to brazenly share info would require a radical overhaul of all NHS computing methods, not simply the promised land of Cancer 360. After all, I’m primarily handled for most cancers at one belief however my lead advisor works at one other one and I’m nonetheless formally a affected person at three different hospital trusts.

Oncologists are very intelligent however how would they, and the well being system, deal with the concept sufferers are folks and have extra points than simply most cancers? No 10 wants to return to fundamentals and realise that, as a substitute of being in a futuristic world of printers that don’t jam and computer systems that don’t crash, the NHS is years away from having the ability to introduce Cancer 360 as something greater than a gimmick.

This is illustrated by the truth that we’re nonetheless able the place nurses are writing on sufferers in a bid to try to get different nursing employees to concentrate to them.

Yes, you learn that appropriately.

On multiple event, nurses from one part of the hospital the place I’m handled for bowel most cancers have written a word on my dressings. The message is meant for nursing employees on the wards and is meant to assist them know tips on how to deal with me. But the ward employees at all times ignore this word and the corresponding report on the non-Cancer 360 system.

Just in case Wes Streeting ever visits the “world-leading” most cancers hospital the place I get therapy, I’m going to put in writing a message on my chest in marker pen which says “Technology is great as part of the solution, but you don’t even know what the issues are. Get to grips with those and then come back to us.” And, in reality, I’d a lot favor a go to from one of many remedy canines they often have whereas I’m ready for blood exams than Wes.