Just a very short blog.
Why – after almost six months – can’t the Commonwealth Department of Health sort out its web-site?
Seems to me if they can’t do this – and we keep being referred to the archive site something serious is wrong!
This banner has become just embarrassing!
“Material on the Department of Health and Ageing web site is being reviewed following the federal election on 24 November 2007. The department’s previous web site and its essential health and ageing information have been archived, but remain accessible here. This revised web site will reflect the new government's policies, programs and priorities for the health and ageing portfolio.”
See http://www.health.gov.au/ (as of March 6, 2008)
I fear this reflects a ministerial team that simply does not want to properly communicate with the public and has a very bad attitude to e-Health.
The public is entitled to an easy to use and navigate web site with all the relevant information!
How hard can it be to sort this out, and why has it not happened by now?
Inquiring minds would really like to know. It is getting to be annoying!
David.
1 comment:
Just a gut feeling, David. Lindsay Tanner's rationalisations of IT costs may be cutting deep into sacred sites. DoHA leadership must share responsibility for failures of NEHTA, so said leadership may be having a good look at itself. As you say, the public face of DoHA ia not a good look, so that may reflect the depth of soul-searching and impending changes. We can only hope that decency and huge fat payouts will prevail.
I'll try to ask the troops at the coalface of the PBS next time I log a prescription-shopping request.
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