Alex

I don’t think it’s purely a private thing though. As a country we haven’t kept up with investment into our very antiqued infrastructure and it’s going to take a lot to fix it.

Here in Wales our water is publicly owned but we are still seeing prices rises because guess what - capital investment has been put off because it’s hard and expensive.

It’s not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don’t think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

We’ll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?

Because the last attempt to unify NHS systems into one central system (The National Program for IT aka NPfIT) turned into a typical mega-budget IT project that got nowhere?

What we should be prioritising is data interoperability standards that solutions can be qualified against so things work smoothly. Not giving one of the big contractors a frame contract that locks the whole NHS into a single provider for the next 20 years.

I thought the argument here was that biological sex and gender should be recorded as separate fields on NHS records because currently it is inconsistently used leading to clinical risk. The NHS number is not an identity document, it’s meant to track your records over your lifetime of treatment in the NHS.

Pre-cut with comedy edges as well. But the methodology seemed valid as another poster said, giving cars the same limited eyesight as us seems like under engineering for safety.