Posts by zeptepi

Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working

Re: A New Challenger^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWireless Standard Appears!

Hmm, my domestic use case for WiFi6 is for backups of my laptop to complete before the battery dies when Mrs Z has unplugged it.

UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas

Roaming again

Oh no, not notspots again ...

What happened to the UKGovt. negotiations to force mobile service providers to allow roaming in rural areas, as all our phones can do if we go to Europe?

A business solution that would obviate using satellite except to sites with truly zero cover?

Londoners: Ready to swap your GP for an NHS vid doc app?

Re: Choice

"Our experience has shown that the majority of GP appointments can be carried out on the patient's phone"

Don't believe this: it has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

And don't kid us that you're an NHS service: being free at the point of use is only part of being real NHS, the part any spiv can price into their business model. The other part is Universal Coverage, and you are flagrantly breaching that by cherry-picking the fit and easy cases.

You are also "passing off" this service as if a GP service. It may be staffed by GP-trained cyber-docs, but where is the service to the local community co-ordinating all local health and care resources? And I know of no real NHS GPs who don't protect the privacy of medical data, and are proud of that condition of their licence.

Re: Aren't NHS GPs paid per registered patient...

Indeed, real NHS GP practices are not allowed to cherry-pick the fit and easy patients, and it is not OK for a service that benefits from NHS branding and publicly-paid infrastructure such as their IT incl. Electronic Prescription Serrvice, and funding from the same pot so defunds the remaining services provided by real GPs.

Yes real GPs – because this also “passes off” these GP-trained cyber-docs as if they are real GPs serving a real community by hands-on care, and by co-ordinating local resources, and all with preserving privacy cos their licence depends on it.

This service should be explicitly private, to introduce funding from the user for their own convenience, as a top-up model to the real NHS.