Re: Confused..
"There's no way to make sure that every patient in the hospital is being looked after by a consultant, "
Seriously? The NHS has never achieved this? This isn't an IT thing, its a do your bloody business thing. This is not unlike the removing the wrong kidney / chop off the wrong leg incompetence. Simple paper checklists (bought in as best practice from the air industry but strongly resisted by some medicos) helped prevent this - it doesn't need billions in IT to solve what should just be being done.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
