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That link won't work now ... it's gone, finito (khalas!).

Question to the Wise:- does NHSP* do (carry, provide, support - or whatever the word is) biomed techs?

Also, am I right in assuming that (despite carrying the NHS logo) it is actually just another company offering staff to the "healthcare sector"; albeit (perhaps) the "preferred supplier" to NHS Trusts?

I have taken a quick look at the lovely website, but (TBH) "life is too short" to dig into it too much.

* NHS Professionals Ltd. "... the leading provider of managed flexible worker services to the NHS ... blah, blah, blah"!

Could this be a classic case of a "Good News, Bad News" situation? ...

First, the Good News (I suppose we might call it that):- the Buddies are (is) back!

And the Bad News? Well, even though I gave up that domain name a couple of years ago, the new owner has obviously seen fit to cut and paste not only my original guff (spiel, text, narratives) but has also had the cheek to include my name (not to mention brief "bio-data", and email contact)!

Well, guys, let's be clear:- that site has nothing to do with me now. And surely that is clearly evidenced by the use of the word "BioMed" (capital M), rather than the "Biomed" that I would always use (as can be seen by glancing at the text I wrote many moons ago - even though I see that someone else now claims "Copyright (c) 2017")!

If the guy in California or Florida (or wherever the person is) looks at this (ebme) site - which somehow I doubt - here's the message:- please remove all references to myself from that website, remove my text, stop being a ****, and write your own pages.

A New (Bad) Deal for Agency Techs? - it looks like the Powers That Be may have shot themselves in the foot (yet) again.

Two comments come to mind:-

1) You can't beat the system (the taxman will get you eventually)
2) The UK Government (and especially the NHS) is not very good at IT projects!

See here for more.

Good thing I'm out of it all now.

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But on a related matter ... is the "XP to Windows 10 roll-out" really good news for the NHS? What about all those overnight updates standing by to screw things up?

Don't worry, guys ... now we have Super Subbie!

Agency Techs? My mate once asked a well known 3rd party service provider if they could provide a tech for a month ....... they asked for £10k plus expenses to provide a tech for a month.

Agency Techs and "3rd party service providers" are two different things; your mate should have approached one of the (well-known) Agencies.

Or even contacted Yours Truly.

He should have approached an agency, the 3rd party provider had techs that could not even wire a plug (fact) ……….

Fact? How do you know?

Otherwise, I rest my case.

Defo Fact, an individual from the well known company went for a job interview in the NHS. The interviewer asked the individual to leave and then sent photographic evidence of the poor attempt at wiring the plug to the CEO and Quality manager of the 3rd party service provider.