Notes:-Lunch ride, feeling a bit wobbly today. AHSN Team call this morning didnt help. Updates from senior team on national work including IS and WS2 but no acknowledgement that Im actually leading much of the work. Tony talks like he is heavily involved in the national strategy, but from what I have seen he isnt, was a bit of a penny dropping moment for me. Also the Chatbot bid for the national insights programme didnt get through and no one bothered to tell me. Put a lot of work into that. This would have been a great collaborative piece of work with an ICS but the ARC academics didnt like it. Usual prattle, self promotion and trivial stuff from certain quarters plus a big bit on comms which was great but why has it taken 2 years to redevelop the website... all the crap I had for that... They have also appointed an external consultancy to look at IT and our systems, how is that going to help. Also slight kick in the teeth that the Implementation and Adoption role was given the guy who is covering Amys role. Ok an 8C role would be a big backward step but if this was a more sustainable role plus my experience then surely I could have slotted in. Feeling invisible and completely out of touch with the AHSN. Paranoid side feels its deliberate, easier to get rid if Im less visible but Im still puzzled why Im still here and whats the longer term plan. Do I carry on with what sometimes feels like poison chalice projects like the NAS and WS2 or just get the hell out. The regional ICS work feels like a red herring which will be impossible to succeed at. The NAS is giving me some good profile in the AHSN network and maybe there is a permanent role thee for me next year. But the WS2 work could fuck that up and can I afford to wait to March and then get another short term extension. Spotted an 8D programme lead role at NHSX which I should seriously look at. Its permanent and would be more delivery focussed. Rant over.
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