The Government has
launched an initiative to try to reduce bureaucracy in everyone's
daily working lives; the "Red
Tape Challenge" which has already simplified the workload of
hospital
pharmacy departments
Since I last worked in
blood transfusion on a regular basis the amount of paperwork in that
field has gone through the roof.
The suggestion has been
made to amend or do away with much of the blood
quality and safety regulations.
Admittedly this article
is now a couple of years old, but it makes for interesting reading.
Mind you I'm a little concerned that whoever moderates that website
(presumably some Whitehall official) has seen fit to censor
some of the replies.
What do I think on the
matter.... There is clearly too much paperwork at the moment. A not
insubstantial amount of this is duplicated between the various bodies
and agencies regulating us. Much of this paperwork is unnecessary in
the twenty-first century - much information gathering could be
automated by improving the I.T. systems used in blood banks. And
there is quite a lot of work going on which fulfils the letter (but
not the spirit) of the law.
Perhaps the regulating
bodies might reconsider exactly what is required in the regulation of
a blood bank, and question how what is being done today "because
the regulations demand it" actually benefits the functioning of
the department or the public well-being in any way.
I suspect those making
the regulations are rather distant from those having to apply them.
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