Monopolies restrict progress on Environmental, Social and Economic prosperity

Systemic Problems within many of today's Government Departments, Civil Service & Appointed Authorities.

Social monopolies - often horrendously inefficient, top-heavy & with almost absolute authority and heavily resistant to change. Adding practical competition as a means to improve fairness, efficiencies and progress.

As with some industries with monopoly positions on services or products, so often, when dealing with government departments & civil servants, while some can be polite &=and helpful, others can be anything but. Unlike the competitively driven industries were good customer service is maintained/driven by active competition, customer feedback government departments, civil servants & appointed entities "with a social monopoly on authority" often lack the practical strong competitive forces to drive customer service & efficiencies. Frustrations when "genuinely seeking progress" can lead to "unnecessary" wasteful personal contests between individuals or tribal contests between departments. Someone seeking progress can quickly be passed to an equally inefficient complaints department. Wasting resources & opportunities for efficient solutions/progress. as reputedly demonstrated in public scandals. civil service entices will often waste vast resourced and even destroy lives before conceding errors. Despite reams of guidelines and regulation when organisation lack incentive and efficient micro management , self protection of departments and colleagues come first.

A problem which hinders progress in Cancer Care and R&D too.

Somehow we need to get more to look past Simplistic Tribal Beliefs and learn of a problem which gets in the way of Cancer progress more than any greedy industry player. Social Monopolies with almost absolute authority, often extremely inefficient with conflicts of interest, and heavily resistant to change.

2018-21 was a particularly tough period with wasteful contests, my own mother had a secondary local recurrence of her cancer. then a 3rd. May be adding examples of those ridiculous unnecessary contests which wasted valuable time and will likely leave the advances we'd been pushing to achieve too late for someone close to you. During my mothers secondary recurrence (A 3cm tumour in her armpit), Yet after surgery her oncologist arranged wide radiotherapy to her chest. (a mistake. chest radiotherapy is not cost free) When I mentioned we'd spent years on related R&D and pointed out despite the 3cm tumour medical images showed no evidence of a tumour-seeding-site in the chest area, and mentioned factors indicating the secondary tumour was much more likely to have been seeded from the original biopsies and a lumpectomy procedures (In which tumour tissue had been cut though 10 years earlier) as opposed to rational discussion the oncologist took offence at questioning the logic of her decision and became confrontational , and wouldn't concede the error. (Not something cancer patients and their families should be burdened with at such times) It took the lead oncologist at the hospital to acknowledge the logic of what I'd pointed out.

Mistakes like that are valuable opportunities to learn from and adjust /improve processes. Yet there's no indication that happened. Instead when I'd attended a later appointment with a surgeon, it was clear from the attitude as opposed to knowledge of the bad error, internal gossip had delivered an entirely different account had spread. Leaving a horrible unnecessary tense atmosphere during that appointment too.

Adding practical competition as a means to improve fairness, efficiencies & progress.

Social Monopolies an example of civil service staff at their worst. Insensitive, ignorant & aggressively authoritarian. damaging the reputation of their colleagues.

First Video is the Sky News coverage of this, the one below is additional frottage

Police standards repeated failure

Excessive bureaucracy or problematic escalation will not solve problems. We need support to build smarter practical solutions.

Long beknownst to us -

We may not live under a totally corrupt and inefficient unworkable Marxist Socialist dictatorship like the Soviet Checka, the East German Stasi (totally brutal policing) or the Nazi Gestapo (which replicated much of Marxism).

However in today's ever-increasingly bureaucratic democracies the lack of responsive micromanagement and customer feedback mechanisms to maintain standards and efficiency is endemically problematic throughout civil service from policing to healthcare.

When things go wrong, instead of sensible pragmatic pathways for progress towards resolution or accountability and transparency, too often we have abuse of power and authority. This is conflated by bureaucratic processes in which staff will retain unaccountability rather than moving towards speedy resolution or transparent admissal and apology for costly errors. For example people may be directed to inefficient bureaucratic complaints departments.

Unlike the common simplistic targets of hate & blame. Capitalism etc

Such #SocialMonopolies with inefficient civil service, regulators,lack of regulation and ineffective complaints departments are responsible for many of the problems people complain about. This maintains a dysfunctional and detrimental loop which can have severe sociological repercussions.

We need competition as opposed to single authorities with Monopoly positions. And the introduction of new practical mechanisms to maintain standards and encourage efficient progress.

My original interest in this comes from years of struggling to improve efficiencies in cancer services.

However, another example occurred during ambitious efforts for covid-19

See https://www.hf21.org/covid19-emergency/emergency-rd

I had one of the arrogant authoritarian individuals within the PSNI shouting in my face when he was wrong, and too ignorant to even pause to learn why he was wrong or apologise.

Arrogant authoritarian individuals like him wouldn't last a week as a customer service representative in private industry.

Ironically as he was shouting in my face, (during the first wave of covid-19)

By that point my biomed colleague and I had already known about the need to reduce microdroplet contamination from covid-19.

And knew raised voices rapidly increased forward projection of the essential carrier fluids & microdroplets. (Btw, that's why wearing masks in populated spaces makes sense)

The problems I describe here are quite universal but especially so in Northern Ireland with ongoing

Marxist Nazi Style political warfare

Front groups

Agitation

Propaganda Productions

All designed to deliberately exploit Them vs Us divisions.

The lack of a better system to limit the ability of Individual PSNI members and teams behaving like that could end up contributing to radicalisation, destroying lives and getting their colleagues murdered. (Including the upstanding ones who are doing their best)

If anyone has had issues at the hands of civil service functioning as inefficient #SocialMonopolies and is interested in sharing the knowledge from their experience to help push for progress...

Or help test an experimental format to encourage fast informal apologies from rogue civil service teams or individuals...

(adding competition to the regulators as a means to help improve fairness, efficiencies & reduce the destructive unnecessary contests)

Please get in touch.

The above are very serious challenges for our society.