{"id":1837,"date":"2008-10-16T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:21:08","slug":"junior-doctors-online-recruitment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Junior Doctors Online Recruitment System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211; a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Medical Training Application System\u00a0&#8211; UK<br \/>\nDate :<\/strong> May 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Cost :<\/strong>$12M<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<br \/>\n<\/strong>Junior doctors forced to reapply directly to hospitals after a new centralized system for matching doctors and postings disintegrates.\u00a0 System left many of the UK&#8217;s most qualified junior doctors without training posts.\u00a0 Publicity of the problems resulted in journalists identifying significant security flaws that allowed them to see confidential data.\u00a0\u00a0Government\u00a0initially\u00a0withdraw the system claiming issues were minor.\u00a0 Government later forced to admit system was seriously flawed.\u00a0 Government eventually ditches the system altogether.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<br \/>\n<\/strong>Volume related performance problems.\u00a0\u00a0Missing requirements.\u00a0 Design errors.\u00a0 Bugs that resulted in data being lost.\u00a0 Security flaws that resulted in loss of confidential data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medical_Training_Application_Service\">Wikipedia article &#8211; Medical Training Application System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6521095.stm\">Hewitt apology for training chaos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/1551578\/Humiliated-Hewitt-in-junior-doctors-climbdown.html\">Humiliated Hewitt in junior doctors climb-down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211; a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Medical Training Application System\u00a0&#8211; UK Date : May 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cost :$12M Synopsis : Junior doctors forced to reapply directly to hospitals after a new centralized system for matching doctors and postings disintegrates.\u00a0 System [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7832,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}