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Booster jab queue at Citywest vaccination centre last week

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

People are getting multiple booster vaccine appointments because of a glitch between the Health Service Executive’s vaccination database and the IT systems used by pharmacies and GPs.

The HSE has confirmed that people are being issued with HSE booster appointments after they get booster vaccinations at their GPs or local pharmacy, because of the “gap” between the computer systems and databases.

The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) and Irish College of General Practitioners said the “gap” is caused by a time lag as long as two days between their information technology systems and the HSE’s.

In a statement to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, the HSE said that because “GPs and pharmacies operate on different IT systems, there may be a gap in notification of the vaccination which can, from time to time, result in multiple appointments”.

Anyone?

IT glitch causes multiple booster appointments, HSE confirms (RTE)

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Meanwhile…

HSE CEO Paul Reid

This morning.

Anyone?

HSE shuts down IT system after ‘significant’ cyber attack (RTÉ)

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A 1:12 scale, posable action figure of Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise from the 2017 movie of Stephen King’s novel, IT.

As you’d expect, it comes complete with four horrifying interchangeable heads, eight hands, a balloon, a paper boat, a severed arm and a framed painting.

Available to pre-order (shipping from November 2019) from Mezco Toys for about €89.

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Former Off The Ball guys chat to Trap, Joe Schmidt, Richie Sadlier, Shane Horgan, Gerry Thornley and Sid Lowe.

Kick off on Irish Times website and iTunes at 2pm around 2.10/2.15pm.

Previously: Anything Sad In The Phoenix

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Pic: David Cochrane

Amazingly, the 5 rupees a day wage failed to attract qualified candidates.

It is normal to find that a software update has caused a problem; IT staff expect to back out in such cases. But in the process of backing out a major blunder was committed, according to our source. It was this error which made the task of restoring services so prolonged:

When they did the back-out, a major error was made. An inexperienced person cleared the whole queue…they erased all the scheduling.

Ouch.

Job adverts show that at least some of the team responsible for the blunder were recruited earlier this year in India following IT job cuts at RBS in the UK.

 

But like a true banker:

The CEO of RBS Group, Stephen Hester, has said that there is no evidence that the problem is connected to lack of investment in technology at RBS and the outsourcing of IT jobs to India.

‘Inexperienced’ RBS Tech Operative’s Blunder Led To Banking Meltdown (The Register)