Dido Harding & Cronyism?

This page is no longer updated, and is the old forum. For new topics visit the New HOL forum.

Dido Harding & Cronyism?

Page 3 of 3 << First < 1 2 3

croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 20 Aug 20 12.22am
Originally posted by Sportyteacher Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, is to be the interim chief of the government's new Health Protection Institute. The agency - set to launch on Tuesday - will merge some of Public Health England's (PHE) pandemic response work with the coronavirus test and trace system: [Link] So, is she up to the task and what of her professional credentials? Dido Harding is also married to Conservative MP, James Penrose (who sits on the advisory board of think tank "1828", which "calls for the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system and for Public Health England to be scrapped" She is a Tory peer with no public health experience. A pal of Matt Hancock who has presided over our omnishambolic track and trace system. Before that, she was also the same person who also had to resign in disgrace from TalkTalk losing the company 60m in fines and over 100k customers due to serious data breach down to total lack of knowledge. City A.M. described her responses as 'naive', noting that early on when asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: 'The awful truth is that I don't know' What are your thoughts? Just jobs for the boys/girls, it"s a big CON, but only to be expected, just business i"m afraid, and business that any of us are unlikely to see!
Alert a moderator to this post

croydon proud

Any european country i fancy! 20 Aug 20 12.22am

Originally posted by Sportyteacher

Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, is to be the interim chief of the government's new Health Protection Institute.
The agency - set to launch on Tuesday - will merge some of Public Health England's (PHE) pandemic response work with the coronavirus test and trace system:

[Link]

So, is she up to the task and what of her professional credentials?

Dido Harding is also married to Conservative MP, James Penrose (who sits on the advisory board of think tank "1828", which "calls for the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system and for Public Health England to be scrapped" She is a Tory peer with no public health experience. A pal of Matt Hancock who has presided over our omnishambolic track and trace system. Before that, she was also the same person who also had to resign in disgrace from TalkTalk losing the company 60m in fines and over 100k customers due to serious data breach down to total lack of knowledge. City A.M. described her responses as 'naive', noting that early on when asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: 'The awful truth is that I don't know'

What are your thoughts?

Just jobs for the boys/girls, it"s a big CON, but only to be expected, just business i"m afraid, and business that any of us are unlikely to see!

Alert a moderator to this post

cryrst The garden of England 20 Aug 20 4.26am
I dont see the big problem. It's an interim post. She wont do it for money, she already has power by the very nature of her position in society. Maybe she is the right person with the right qualifications. Remember that these bodies and departments being set up or altered are for our benefit. Not their benefit. PHE is being merged with two other departments. It may be good for all of us moving forwards, it may not but trying to make things better is surely a good thing. I think the labour policy of inter joining the health records nationwide was a good thing. Sadly it failed and cost money. That should have been carried on imo but it was stopped because of money and bashing from the right. You see it's natural to support your own preference in politics but just sometimes you have to be neutral and play the ball not the man.
Alert a moderator to this post

cryrst

The garden of England 20 Aug 20 4.26am

I dont see the big problem.
It's an interim post. She wont do it for money, she already has power by the very nature of her position in society.
Maybe she is the right person with the right qualifications. Remember that these bodies and departments being set up or altered are for our benefit. Not their benefit. PHE is being merged with two other departments. It may be good for all of us moving forwards, it may not but trying to make things better is surely a good thing.
I think the labour policy of inter joining the health records nationwide was a good thing. Sadly it failed and cost money. That should have been carried on imo but it was stopped because of money and bashing from the right. You see it's natural to support your own preference in politics but just sometimes you have to be neutral and play the ball not the man.

Alert a moderator to this post

Sportyteacher London 20 Aug 20 11.38am
It has been reported that the management consultant company McKinsey is being paid £563,000 to advise on the “vision, purpose and narrative” of the new institute. Civil Service World reported McKinsey was awarded the contract in May. Dido Harding, the Conservative peer and boss of NHS Test and Trace, who has been put in charge of the institute while it gets off the ground, worked for McKinsey early in her career. Isn't it a small world?
Alert a moderator to this post

Sportyteacher

London 20 Aug 20 11.38am

It has been reported that the management consultant company McKinsey is being paid £563,000 to advise on the “vision, purpose and narrative” of the new institute. Civil Service World reported McKinsey was awarded the contract in May. Dido Harding, the Conservative peer and boss of NHS Test and Trace, who has been put in charge of the institute while it gets off the ground, worked for McKinsey early in her career.

Isn't it a small world?

Alert a moderator to this post

Badger11 Beckenham 20 Aug 20 12.04pm
Originally posted by Sportyteacher It has been reported that the management consultant company McKinsey is being paid £563,000 to advise on the “vision, purpose and narrative” of the new institute. Civil Service World reported McKinsey was awarded the contract in May. Dido Harding, the Conservative peer and boss of NHS Test and Trace, who has been put in charge of the institute while it gets off the ground, worked for McKinsey early in her career. Isn't it a small world? Ah yes the wonderful firm McKinsey my old firm brought them in to do a review / cost cutting exercise. They had no ideas of their own all they did was ask the staff how to improve productivity. Us staff realised very quickly that senior management had already decided on the cut back and was using McKinsey as a fig leaf to hide behind. A complete waste of money and cowardness on the part of the management blaming the outside consultants for their decisions. One more point
Alert a moderator to this post

Badger11

Beckenham 20 Aug 20 12.04pm

Originally posted by Sportyteacher

It has been reported that the management consultant company McKinsey is being paid £563,000 to advise on the “vision, purpose and narrative” of the new institute. Civil Service World reported McKinsey was awarded the contract in May. Dido Harding, the Conservative peer and boss of NHS Test and Trace, who has been put in charge of the institute while it gets off the ground, worked for McKinsey early in her career.

Isn't it a small world?

Ah yes the wonderful firm McKinsey my old firm brought them in to do a review / cost cutting exercise.

They had no ideas of their own all they did was ask the staff how to improve productivity. Us staff realised very quickly that senior management had already decided on the cut back and was using McKinsey as a fig leaf to hide behind. A complete waste of money and cowardness on the part of the management blaming the outside consultants for their decisions.

One more point

Alert a moderator to this post

Sportyteacher London 20 Aug 20 4.02pm
Oh it gets to be even more revealing the more one digs deeper .. and yet it is all information that is publicly available: Introducing The Prime Minister's appointed Anti-Corruption Champion who is none other than ....John Penrose MP, husband of Dido Harding. The Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Champion is responsible for: a) challenging and coordinating the UK response to corruption and the implementation of the first UK anti-corruption strategy b) leading the UK’s push to strengthen the international response to corruption and to represent the UK at relevant international fora engaging with external stakeholders, including business, civil society organisations, parliamentarians and foreign delegations in the development of government anti-corruption policy Before entering politics, his previous business dealings included: a) J P Morgan (risk management on a bank trading floor) b) McKinsey (strategic management consultancy) c)Thompson (academic book publishing) d) Pearson PLC (Managing Director of Longman’s schoolbook publishing operations) [Link] Join the dots time...
Alert a moderator to this post

Sportyteacher

London 20 Aug 20 4.02pm

Oh it gets to be even more revealing the more one digs deeper .. and yet it is all information that is publicly available:

Introducing The Prime Minister's appointed Anti-Corruption Champion who is none other than ....John Penrose MP, husband of Dido Harding.

The Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Champion is responsible for:

a) challenging and coordinating the UK response to corruption and the implementation of the first UK anti-corruption strategy
b) leading the UK’s push to strengthen the international response to corruption and to represent the UK at relevant international fora
engaging with external stakeholders, including business, civil society organisations, parliamentarians and foreign delegations in the development of government anti-corruption policy

Before entering politics, his previous business dealings included:
a) J P Morgan (risk management on a bank trading floor)
b) McKinsey (strategic management consultancy)
c)Thompson (academic book publishing)
d) Pearson PLC (Managing Director of Longman’s schoolbook publishing operations)

[Link]

Join the dots time...

Alert a moderator to this post

Page 3 of 3 << First < 1 2 3

Previous Topic | Next Topic

Crystal Palace FC Supporters' Website - The Holmesdale Online

Dido Harding & Cronyism?

Site Map

New users

Existing users

Sponsors