Using data smartly in the NHS is key to making it more effiecient.

I witnessed £1 million wasted on writing a piece of software that potentially could have saved the NHS millions but due to bad management and politics was eventually cancelled.

This despite the fact that a NHS board manager had already created a similair system, himself through self taught coding in an Access database

Agree about using data but the main problem is trust autonomy which allows them to develop incompatible systems. For example every damn A&E department in the country has a different software platform or configuration. There should just be one!

Oh that and NHS management, who should just be put up against a wall and shot. If you divide it across all trusts, each directorate member has pissed about 20 million of cash out of the window on stuff that hasn't delivered.

Yes, maybe I do! Just need to make the sure you end up being an ageing Rockstar programmer rather than retired Lounge singer

Not sure about this, could end up being a long list of fizz buzz variants, but would give a place to migrate interview questions away from main stack overflow website

I think a lot of the talent is drained away to the South, as bulk of the jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh are in Finance or public sector.

Well, we had a 100 CEO's at the CEO To CEO @ the Turing Festival in Edinburgh two weeks ago - so I think you are wrong on that.

"Scotland has a much smaller talent pool of developers than many other countries and that's a fundamental bottleneck for any startup"

It wasn't clear but I was meaning talent to staff the startups, I don't think there would be a bottleneck! It would would stop the drain.