26th May 2011, 08:24 PM
GnomeKing Wrote:"benefits would be if there were standards in place for what a HER should and shouldn't do. Basically, the main one would be a greater degree of consistency across the country" :face-crying:...more bureaucracy, and less adjustment to local situation and needs....?
There's a danger, I suppose, that it could restrict some freedom to adjust to local situations, but in reality I think any guidance document is unlikely to specify to that level of detail. I'd expect it to be at a fairly high level - as I said before, I'd anticipate that the aim will be to establish a minimum set of criteria as to what a HER should be doing and how it should be interacting with its users in areas such as data access. In that way, any organisation that doesn't meet these standards can be pulled up, while any HER that already meets or exceeds them is unlikely to need to make any changes to the way it operates. I'd hope that the end result would be a general levelling-up of HERs, while not restricting the ability of those who already provide a good service to carry on with what they're doing.
I agree with you re: privatisation though
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum