Great Western Hospital

Don't worry.

I, I'm not [laughs] I'm, I'm not an accident-prone, you know, uh, idiot." [laughs] Um, but it was, it was a fixed-term contract to implement, um, electronic prescribing at the Great Western Hospital.

Uh, and that was brilliant, um, because, uh, it, it exposed me to the inner workings, the daily workings of a hospital environment, the challenges that technology has within that environment, and there are legion, um, the complexity.

Uh, but one of the things that I, I did walk a- away with at the end of that contract, um, which was delivered on time and on budget, and I didn't realize how rare that was until after.

We didn't have our host of fantastic, um, specialist nurses.

Uh, I'd be giving chemotherapy on a, on a ward, day ward at the Great Western Hospital, which was great, but unfortunately it was shared with the gastroenterology procedure theaters.

So I'd be sitting in one cubicle giving some chemotherapy, saying, "So how are things going? Is it tough?" And from the next cubicle, enormous trumpeting would come through from somebody that had just had a sigmoidoscopy and was releasing all that gas, and all you can say is, "Look, I'm really sorry" [chuckles].

You, you, and you just have to laugh at the patient and say, "I'm really sorry." You know, identify the elephant in the room, in this case trumpeting next door.