I can believe it.
A manager at Barts and The London NHS Trust was ringing people on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgery and asking if they had any upcoming holiday dates. Once they had this information, they gave the poor suckers dates to come in while they were away, so the 26 week waiting time clock (as it was then) got reset to zero due to "operation cancelled by patient due to unavailability" Absolutely true.

Another returned referral letters for specialist opinion back to the GP if they were out of area, even if the local area did not provide the specialist services for which they were being referred.

My personal favourite however is the Chief Executive who ordered several million pounds worth of not-fit-for-purpose IT from BT Cerner before leaving to take up a £200,000 a year job for...BT Cerner. Not unusual though; 2 previous CHief Executives drove through a 1.2 billion pound PFI refit of the hospitals by Skanska before leaving to work for Skanska.

Sacking a few people for porn scanning is well within their level of cuntitude, believe me!
( da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:36, 1 reply)

I need some way to forget I've just read this,
else I'll not be able to get to work, in the morning.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 23:21, closed)