Oh, really? And what would those "specific situations" be in a hospital?

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Apparently, a widespread side effect of the vaccinations is that people post endlessly on football forums, arguing the toss with absolutely no prospect of any constructive, objective conclusions.

One thing that rears it's head with me over Covid, is accountability (or lack of).
I am currently working in an accounts department for a Local Authority. Everything, absolutely everything is checked and double-checked and is a completely transparent and traceable chain of events for generating purchase orders and settling of invoices.

Mess-ups do happen, but in the vast majority of cases, are nipped at the next stage.
It has educated me as to what a convoluted process, and necessarily so, purchasing within a large organisation is.

What happened with those Covid contracts is criminal behaviour. The suspension of due process whilst these contracts were issued was like giving Ministers handfuls of "Set for life" winning lottery tickets, with no chance of investigation.

criminal behaviour that should be exposed.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

Assuming of course there is a decent audit team who can stand up to management.

My brother worked in the same bank as me in the Audit division. Despite all the management BS about doing the right thing he and the rest of the team were put under immense pressure by management whenever they discovered something dodgy.

Mostly they were able to do their job but it wasn't easy when somebody really senior tells you to change your conclusions.

So the systems are available to track and expose fraud etc. that's not the issue it's whether management want to know about it.

What processes did Croydon Council have in place?

Edited by Badger11 (25 Apr 2023 9.44am)

One more point

The Company I managed had outside auditors, KPMG, arrive every year at the behest of the overseas owners. They worked completely independently, made no social chit-chat with me or my staff, and only made demands for documents. Their presence was extremely disruptive and mega-expensive, but never once turned up anything of concern. The point, of course, was they were completely independent, so the owners knew they could be trusted.

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