£20/loaf Marxist NHS begins rationing operations

Is there a process by which public servants can be prosecuted for incompetence above and beyond the call of duty?

Misfeasance in public office crosses my mind...

Note that the public affais select committee has just uttered its report on how government buys IT. It's pretty ugly:

"The UK has been described as "a world leader in ineffective IT schemes for government". There have been a number of high cost IT initiatives which have run late, under-performed or failed over the last 20 years including: the Child Support Agency's IT system, the IT system that would have underpinned the National ID Card scheme, the Defence Information Infrastructure Programme, the implementation of the Single Payments Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency, and the National Offender Management System (C-Nomis)...

IT projects suffer from

- Inadequate information, resulting in the Government being unable to manage its IT needs successfully (Chapter 3);

- An over-reliance on a small number of large suppliers and the virtual exclusion of small and medium sized (SME) IT contractors, which tend to be less risk adverse and more innovative (Chapter 4);

- A failure to integrate IT into the wider policy and business change programmes (Chapter 5);

- A tendency to commission large, complex projects which struggle to adapt to changing circumstances (Chapter 6);

- Over-specifying security requirements (Chapter 7), and

- The lack of sufficient leadership and skills to manage IT within the Civil Service, and in particular the absence of an "intelligent customer" function in Departments."

i've got a loaf of bread i'll sell your company for £50,000? sign here please sir...

are you coming over tonight?

regards