Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog: Archives

2008.05.15: Council's unpaid invoices 6 months after SAP go-live

2008.05.13: Identity and Passport Service cancels £11m web passport system

2008.05.13: CSC's £3bn NPfIT contracts to be extended?

2008.05.13: Swindells NPfIT review - more flexibility for NHS IT buyers

2008.05.12: The Sun reports on potential security flaw in NPfIT Choose and Book

2008.05.12: Is NPfIT summary care record plan feasible? UCL report

2008.05.07: NPfIT - back to choice of suppliers for NHS trusts?

2008.05.07: Is CfH in a good position to oversee the NPfIT?

2008.05.04: Whitehall pushed immature technology on NHS – government-funded report

2008.05.01: Top Whitehall 200k IT jobs – hopefuls given only 2 weeks to apply

2008.04.30: Fujitsu makes revised offer on NPfIT contract

2008.04.30: World-class? - please no

2008.04.25: 290 patient safety incidents reported under NPfIT scheme

2008.04.23: Some of the good and bad at HC2008 - a summing up

2008.04.22: Whitehall advertises for NHS CIO

2008.04.22: HC2008 - the lighter side of Healthcare Computing event in Harrogate

2008.04.22: Small-scale NPfIT look-alike in Australia is in trouble

2008.04.21: Have NPfIT contract talks in the south stalled?

2008.04.21: Judge says ministerial statement about ID Card gateway reviews and FOI was "wrong"

2008.04.18: All eyes on the NPfIT go-live at Barts?

2008.04.17: Rapist poses as council care worker to access its data

2008.04.16: Choose and Book problems: up to 340 patients affected since Friday

2008.04.16: Swindells report on NHS IT: is it being held up?

2008.04.16: Former NHS CIO: the risks of enforced standardization

2008.04.16: Robert Mugabe, spin and the NPfIT

2008.04.15: Barts NPfIT go-live: “a roller-coaster ride”

2008.04.10: Another leading figure in NHS IT and the NPfIT quits

2008.04.10: Barts NHS NPfIT go-live ends up in "The Sun"

2008.04.09: NPfIT minister “clarifies” incorrect statement to Parliament

2008.04.08: 10 years to "sort out" Denver's baggage IT problems

2008.04.08: NHS and Fujitsu to sign NPfIT MoU

2008.04.07: Some NHS trusts put NPfIT plans on hold

2008.04.04: Tory policy on government IT, open source and openness

2008.04.03: "New world after the NPfIT"

2008.04.02: Richard Jeavons to quit the NPfIT - NHS Chief Executive comments

2008.04.01: Congratulations to Government CIO for lowering networked PC costs

2008.04.01: Senior executive to leave NHS IT programme

2008.03.31: An incorrect NPfIT statement to the House of Commons

2008.03.28: Public sector outsourcing users paying up to 75% over market rates

2008.03.27: Errors in thousands of records in prisoner tracking system - internal EDS study

2008.03.25: NPfIT leaflet says national database could save your life

2008.03.25: Will mass opt-outs leave NPfIT summary care record project in chaos?

2008.03.19: FOI papers reveal more lessons from Bolton NPfIT trials

2008.03.19: NPfIT executives will stand by Lorenzo

2008.03.18: Top doctors too "excited" by the NPfIT?

2008.03.14: NPfIT spending £1.5bn less than expected

2008.03.12: BBC R4's "Today" and the High Court case over ID Card Gateway reviews

2008.03.10: High Court case on ID Cards Gateway reviews, the 1689 Bill of Rights and Commons' Speaker

2008.03.07: New ID cards timetable - as robust as NPfIT pledges?

2008.03.03: BBC R4's "Today" and our article on the NPfIT summary care record

2008.03.03: No qualifications needed to access national health records database

2008.02.28: Police won’t use national e-health records for fishing - government pledge

2008.02.28: Why the fuss over sharing patient data with police and other authorities?

2008.02.28: Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records

2008.02.26: Chip and pin flaws - are security evaluations robust?

2008.02.26: B'ham Council's SAP system - local MP remains defensive

2008.02.25: Downing St NPfIT papers - full set (as released by Cabinet Office)

2008.02.25: Government CIO Council turns green

2008.02.21: What Blair, Microsoft and Cisco said at Downing St on NHS IT reform

2008.02.21: The trouble with government IT projects - Colin Beveridge

2008.02.20: What officials promised Blair on NHS IT reform - release of secret papers

2008.02.19: Was NHS IT plan agreed before Downing St meeting?

2008.02.19: National Audit Office due to publish 2nd report on NPfIT by May 2008

2008.02.18: Secret papers reveal Blair's rushed NPfIT plans

2008.02.18: More than £4bn spent on NPfIT by April 2008

2008.02.17: Who was at Downing Street NPfIT meeting?

2008.02.15: ID Cards and the NPfIT – nobody is “responsible”

2008.02.12: Fujitsu and the NHS - bound by obsolete contracts

2008.02.07: Nobody owns the big picture around NHS information says official

2008.02.07: New top NHS jobs as Richard Granger leaves

2008.02.06: Why we campaigned over Downing Street NPfIT papers

2008.02.06: Cabinet Office - investing public money in IT secrecy

2008.02.04: Minister defensive over Cerner NPfIT NHS sites

2008.02.04: SAP go-live leaves 18,000 unpaid bills at Europe's largest local authority - what went wrong

2008.02.04: Software testers say "waterfall" is as popular as "agile"

2008.02.01: Why government doesn't keep statistics on IT failures

2008.02.01: Government review of IT spending - The Times front page

2008.01.30: Libra project – lessons learned from its bounce-back

2008.01.28: Courts £447m IT project is 16 years late – now heading for success?

2008.01.23: Six million appointments via NPfIT Choose and Book system - potentially good news

2008.01.22: Significant risk of Fujitsu quitting NHS IT programme - trust board report

2008.01.22: IBA Health's CEO comments on Lorenzo and the NPfIT

2008.01.17: Alan Johnson may oversee major NPfIT changes in 2008

2008.01.17: Some NPfIT “major issues” - did the PM get a full briefing in 2007?

2008.01.14: Health IT - a success story

2008.01.14: CSC's £5m in penalties: will it now fine the NHS?

2008.01.11: How to deal with bad news – and a case study on mismanaging it

2008.01.11: Life without Richard Granger

2007.12.14: Why was Police Portal scrapped?

2007.12.14: Scrapped Police Portal - one of its past successes

2007.12.14: Home Office agency scraps “world-first” online police system

2007.12.13: More “facts” on HMRC’s missing CDs

2007.12.13: Missing CDs - HMRC's reply on whether it over-reacted

2007.11.28: Is waning interest in HMRC's missing CDs letting government off the hook?

2007.11.28: HMRC’s extreme reaction to missing CDs

2007.11.28: Government spin – Whitehall tries to disparage our NHS article

2007.11.27: Will patient data go overseas?

2007.11.23: Missing CDs – an excuse for ministers to attack the NAO?

2007.11.23: Missing CDs - why the NAO wanted millions of child benefit records

2007.11.21: HMRC's missing Child Benefit CDs - what went wrong and lessons for NPfIT and ID cards

2007.11.20: Grim 2007 Medix survey results on the £12.4bn NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.11.20: The £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure - its two leaders talk about progress, problems and lessons

2007.11.20: Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project

2007.11.20: NPfIT conspirators and a different PR approach to DII problems

2007.11.16: The £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project - was original plan too ambitious?

2007.11.13: BT - good news on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.11.12: BSkyB puts its legal costs of dispute with EDS at £32m

2007.11.09: HMRC cuts annual IT costs and gives Capgemini contract extension worth more than £1bn

2007.11.07: Five million patients benefit from Choose and Book - déjà vu?

2007.11.06: Statistics and the NPfIT "success"

2007.11.06: The NPfIT without Richard Granger - "more scary"

2007.11.02: Is Whitehall discouraging broadcasters from criticising the NPfIT?

2007.10.31: NPfIT went ahead after Prime Minister had 10-minute briefing

2007.10.29: Whitehall has no firm plans to replace Richard Granger or conduct unrestricted review of NPfIT

2007.10.29: EDS and BSkyB legal costs could reach £45m

2007.10.25: Head of National Audit Office to retire - comment

2007.10.25: Will national database of patient records have a 50% shortfall?

2007.10.25: Pioneering NHS trust reports "excellent progress" with summary care record - part of the NHS IT programme

2007.10.25: Comments of Health Committee MPs on NPfIT Summary Care Record

2007.10.24: NPfIT - BBC Radio 4 documentary tomorrow [25 October 2007]

2007.10.18: The stethoscope, Richard Granger and the NPfIT

2007.10.17: NPfIT - similar flaws to NHS IT strategies in as in 1992 and 1998?

2007.10.16: HMRC: Good people, poor communications

2007.10.16: EDS sued by BSkyB for £709m

2007.10.15: Tax credits: HMRC threatens new legal action against EDS

2007.10.15: Healthcare ICT Champions - the shortlist

2007.10.12: ID card costs mixed with sharp passport fee rises

2007.10.11: Reviews of the NHS IT scheme appear to be underway - comment

2007.10.11: Prof Martyn Thomas calls for end to failing projects, delays and wastage

2007.10.10: HM Revenue and Customs – we’re not publishing lessons learned from IT-related problems

2007.10.09: HMRC - we're cancelling penalty notices centrally

2007.10.09: Spin and mistakes by HM Revenue and Customs - comment

2007.10.09: HMRC slow to admit its systems issued incorrect penalties - for third year running

2007.10.03: National Audit Office - the murky "clearance" process

2007.09.26: Channel 4 Dispatches - Is the National Audit Office a mere critical friend to government?

2007.09.24: Sir Bobby Robson's electronic health records viewed illicitly by NHS staff

2007.09.21: Computer Weekly contributes to Channel 4's "Dispatches" broadcast on Monday

2007.09.21: Head of IT at Barnet and Chase Farm NHS trust quits

2007.09.21: IT security - too much emphasis on encryption and authentication of data

2007.09.18: GP Mary Hawking comments on "NPfIT security warning after NHS staff view celebrity record"

2007.09.18: NPfIT security warning after NHS staff view celebrity record

2007.09.18: Government stalls release of papers on £12.4bn NHS IT plan and £5.3bn ID Cards scheme for years

2007.09.18: Congratulations to Derek Wanless and his team over their findings on NHS IT project

2007.09.17: Health Committee makes potent case for review of entire NHS IT Programme

2007.09.13: Health Committee MP criticises report on NPfIT electronic patient record

2007.09.12: Wanless questions whether NHS IT programme should continue without a full audit

2007.09.12: Wanless report 2007 - what it says in full on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.09.11: Commons' Health Committee cannot agree unanimous report on key aspects of the NHS National Programme for IT

2007.09.10: The NHS's NPfIT: Is it getting better?

2007.09.03: ID card new contracts - genuinely innovative?

2007.08.31: Government asks Trust chiefs to attend private NHS IT event held by Microsoft

2007.08.31: Secrecy over Microsoft's UK government dealings on NHS IT

2007.08.30: British Medical Association sends open letter on NHS National Programme for IT

2007.08.30: Government responds to open letter to Gordon Brown on NHS National Programme for IT

2007.08.28: NPfIT and the Downing Street papers: for and against publishing them

2007.08.24: Senior Responsible Owners - what responsibility should mean

2007.08.24: Senior Responsible Owner - a good idea subverted

2007.08.23: The National Programme for IT in the NHS: what could have been achieved by now, by Robin Guenier

2007.08.22: Former NHS ICT director gives candid views on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.08.22: New twist in iSoft soap opera - IBA bids again for iSoft

2007.08.21: What's in the Downing Street papers on the NHS IT programme?

2007.08.21: Sensitive Downing Street papers on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] may be released

2007.08.16: Congratulations to Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

2007.08.16: Is work by Cerner on the NHS’s National Programme for IT hitting its cash flow?

2007.08.16: Cerner gives brief response to criticisms by Richard Granger, Director General of NHS IT

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 1 - The future of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT looks hazy

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 2 - The future of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT looks hazy - analysis

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 3 - The future of the NHS National Programme for IT looks hazy

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 4 - The future of the NHS National Programme for IT looks hazy

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 5 - The future of the NHS National Programme for IT looks hazy

2007.08.14: NPfIT blog series Part 6 - The future of the NHS National Programme for IT looks hazy

2007.08.13: Gateway reviews, ID cards and work on a £244m government IT programme that's "on hold"

2007.08.13: Link to Government response to the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.08.09: Government snubs key recommendations of Public Accounts Committee on NHS National Programme for IT

2007.08.06: What some CIOs in Whitehall earn compared with other top officials

2007.08.06: Three chief information officers get pay packets that are among the biggest in Whitehall

2007.08.06: What the top Whitehall chief information officers earned

2007.08.06: Whitehall's highest-paid chief information officers - do they earn more than their bosses?

2007.08.03: ID cards - some of the main corporate beneficiaries so far

2007.08.01: BBC's File on 4 reveals defects in ID Cards scheme - with wide implications for government IT

2007.07.31: Confidential briefing to Tony Blair on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.07.31: BBC File on Four programme on ID cards - tonight, July 31 2007

2007.07.26: HM Revenue and Customs pays a strange compliment to its ASPIRE tax credits suppliers

2007.07.24: How the NHS IT programme, TPP's SystmOne, CSC and BT can help GPs during the floods

2007.07.20: Investigation into "unauthorised" Google sponsored link for NHS Connecting for Health

2007.07.18: Eight reasons for failed IT-based projects - according to Borland

2007.07.17: Does the National Audit Office fail to hold senior responsible owners to account?

2007.07.16: Ben Bradshaw is expected to be appointed as ministerial spokesman for the NHS's National Programme for IT - the 13th so far

2007.07.16: Policing IT in government - is the National Audit Office too timid?

2007.07.16: Loss of 1.3 million sensitive medical files in the US - possible implications for the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.07.12: When things go wrong great leaders look in the mirror

2007.07.11: Replacing Richard Granger as head of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT - how much does it matter to the government who it is?

2007.07.05: Eleven statements that may be early warnings of an IT-related project failure

2007.07.04: Gordon Brown faces a question on EDS over tax credits systems at his first Prime Minister's questions

2007.07.04: New Health Secretary announces review of NHS - which could affect direction and funding of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT at a time of cost pressures

2007.07.02: Gordon Brown argues for open government while his Treasury colleagues fight for secrecy on progress of risky IT projects

2007.07.02: Another ministerial spokesperson for the NHS IT programme moves on

2007.07.02: Lord Hunt, one of the ministers in charge of the NHS's National Programme for IT is reshuffled

2007.07.01: NHS IT – are things about to change?

2007.06.29: Warnings in 2002 on the NHS's National Programme for IT were prescient

2007.06.29: A reader asks: Are Microsoft's Exchange 2007 Client Access Licences part of NHS agreements?

2007.06.28: Alan Johnson - a good choice as political head of NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.06.28: One view on how to tackle government IT-related failures

2007.06.27: Connecting for Health, the NHS's National Programme for IT and a constrained form of openness

2007.06.27: Government spin - more reaction

2007.06.25: An open letter to Gordon Brown on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT]

2007.06.25: NHS IT loses a most valuable asset - comment on the announced departure of Richard Granger

2007.06.21: Government spin precedent - UK Liberty comment

2007.06.21: Thanks in part to the £12.4bn National Programme for IT, 100,000 NHS staff have bought Microsoft Office 2007 for less than £20

2007.06.20: Government spin - a worrying precedent

2007.06.20: ID cards - minister's speech highlights the scheme's vague objectives

2007.06.19: Four challenges for Whitehall after the announcement of the departure of Richard Granger, head of the NHS National Programme for IT

2007.06.19: Why the NHS's National Programme for IT can never fail, not in an accountable way at least

2007.06.18: The departure of Richard Granger, head of NHS IT

2007.06.18: Are some patients slipping through the net under Choose and Book, part of the NHS's National Programme for IT?

2007.06.15: New disclosures will be made shortly on Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994

2007.06.12: Ten "foolproof rules for successful project management" - Alwyn Welch, CEO Parity Group

2007.06.08: Health Committee recalls Richard Granger, NHS IT chief

2007.06.08: Health committee MPs visit US to see patient record systems

2007.06.06: Two top NHS officials visit Milton Keynes Hospital and see problematic new NHS IT systems

2007.06.06: Computer Weekly seeks approval from Connecting for Health for three hospital site visits

2007.06.06: "The biggest risk in the computer industry generally at the moment is unreliable power supply" -head of CSC comments on the Maidstone data centre crash

2007.06.06: Prime Minister recruits a successful businessman to run the Office of Government Commerce

2007.06.04: Shredding of gateway reviews - Daily Telegraph article

2007.06.04: Civil servants told to destroy internal reports on billions of pounds of risky IT projects

2007.06.04: Are secret gateway reviews a waste of money?

2007.05.31: Gateway reviews on IT and other projects - Financial Times says the "culture of secrecy is alive and well in Whitehall"

2007.05.30: Why is CSC objecting to the take-over of iSoft by IBA - and do NHS trusts care?

2007.05.30: Subordinates have many reasons not to tell bosses the truth

2007.05.30: Office of Government Commerce statement on gateway reviews - 30 May 2007

2007.05.29: Please don't force us to publish gateway reviews - appeal by Ministers and the Office of Government Commerce to the High Court

2007.05.29: Former head of police IT on ID cards, potential "misuse" of police databases, and lack of public debate over growing use of surveillance systems

2007.05.23: The government prepares to write off Parliamentary report on the NHS's IT programme

2007.05.23: Joe Harley, CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions - suppliers will give us some home truths in July

2007.05.22: Useful or useless Board minutes - HM Revenue and Customs

2007.05.22: Government IT failures are rarely the fault of the technology professionals

2007.05.22: How government spin doctors reacted to a CIO's comments that only 30% of IT projects succeed

2007.05.17: Public sector IT projects have only 30% success rate - CIO for Department for Work and Pensions

2007.05.17: Heroic and Epic - words used by Minister Stephen Timms in praise of the NHS's £12.4bn National IT plan

2007.05.17: Academic study finds that NHS IT programme is "hampered by financial deficits, poor communication and serious delays"

2007.05.17: ID cards scheme - a slight gust of openness

2007.05.14: Computer Weekly wins magazine "Oscar" for investigative journalism relating to NHS's IT Programme

2007.05.11: Jargon - now it's the turn of project managers to think the impenetrable

2007.05.11: Memorable quotes - the first, perhaps, being one justification for this blog

2007.05.10: Pulse magazine launches campaign over the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.05.09: National press follows up Computer Weekly's article on National Programme for IT incidents

2007.05.09: Government agency Connecting for Health attacks NHS users for "inaccurate" reporting of incidents

2007.05.09: Examples of confidential "Major Incidents" reported to the government after go-lives of National Programme for IT systems

2007.05.09: Is government trying to control information on problems after go-lives of National Programme for IT [NPfIT] systems?

2007.05.09: Duplicate patient records in Manchester - the risks and how it happened

2007.05.09: Duplicate patient records on Choose and Book, 200 "major incidents" in four months, and unnecessary NPfIT secrecy

2007.05.09: Government agency, Connecting for Health, responds to some of Computer Weekly's questions over the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.05.08: Connecting for Health statement on duplicate patient records 3 May 2007

2007.05.08: Transformational government - just a spin doctor's meaningless phrase?

2007.05.08: Big IT based projects: benefits of an independent review over an internal one

2007.05.08: Richard Granger, head of NHS IT - "... Ridiculous to imagine that halfway through a ten-year programme you would only be doing the same things as you set out five years ago..."

2007.05.08: Courting failure - using an IT programme to bring about organisational changes that have not already been agreed

2007.05.04: No financial contingency in the National Programme? - Richard Granger, head of the NHS's National Programme for IT.

2007.05.04: The NHS's National Programme for IT is in danger of locking itself out of technology advances

2007.05.04: Electronic patient records on my own system can be confusing - so what will a national system be like?

2007.05.04: Is a choice of systems for GPs a good thing?

2007.05.04: Do NHS IT chiefs have a definition of what is an acceptable level of security breaches?

2007.05.04: Bland platitudes - an MP criticises evidence given by NHS experts to the House of Commons' Health Committee

2007.05.03: Useful or useless minutes of the week

2007.05.02: Why do we write so much about the NHS's National Programme for IT?

2007.05.02: Health Committee hearing - calls for an independent review of NHS IT programme are disparaged

2007.05.02: Memorable Quotes - Jonathan Swift

2007.05.02: IT expert argues with Health Committee chairman for independent review of NHS's National Programme

2007.05.02: Frank Burns, former NHS IT head, gives hard-hitting critique of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT

2007.05.01: NHS Confederation reports "disconnect" with the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT

2007.05.01: Could too much questioning inhibit Progress? - Health Committee chairman

2007.05.01: In 200 years people will look back on this [the NHS's National Programme for IT] and wonder what the fuss was about - Richard Granger, head of NHS IT

2007.05.01: Signs of a big IT-based scheme in trouble

2007.05.01: David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive - eight challenges facing the National Programme for IT

2007.04.27: BMA GP IT spokesman questions whether system being supplied under the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] is legal

2007.04.27: Department of Health and Connecting for Health security flaws

2007.04.26: Is the independence of some gateway reviews being compromised?

2007.04.25: A need for more openness over the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT - British Medical Association

2007.04.25: Memorable quotes - on the danger of seeing a project's problems in isolation of each other

2007.04.24: Some lessons from a troubled go-live of NHS Care Records Service at Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust - letter to Computer Weekly from trust chief executive

2007.04.24: Whitehall officials pledge not to repeat troubles of Care Records Service go-live at Nuffield hospital - but similar problems have already occurred at another hospital

2007.04.24: Lessons from troubled go live of Care Records Service at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre - letter from the National Audit Office

2007.04.20: Terry Walton, recently retired head of IT at an acute NHS trust, asks "Does anyone care any more?"

2007.04.20: Spokeswoman for British Computer Society's Health IT Forum gives reaction to Public Accounts Committee report on the NHS's National IT programme

2007.04.17: National newspapers report on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.04.17: On GMTV's sofa this morning [17 April 2007] - Computer Weekly reporter discusses the Public Accounts Committee report on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.04.17: Link to report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.04.16: Editorial - disingenuous statement by Health Minister Lord Hunt, on the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.04.16: Statement by Health Minister, Lord Hunt, on the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT

2007.04.16: MP calls for closure of "nightmare" NHS computer agency

2007.04.16: The NHS's National Programme for IT may fail to deliver what's required - report of the Public Accounts Committee

2007.04.16: Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committe, comments on his committee's report on the NHS's National Programme for IT - with help from the National Audit Office

2007.04.16: The worst that can happen now is for ministers to go into denial mode - editorial on report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT.

2007.04.16: Behind the scenes of the report today [17 April 2007] of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS National Programme for IT

2007.04.16: NHS National Programme for IT - report of Commons' Public Accounts Committee to be published tomorrow [17 April]

2007.04.12: Excellent article on the dangers of government secrecy

2007.04.12: Prolonging a failing IT project

2007.04.11: Not quite direct answers to straight questions

2007.04.11: NHS Connecting for Health, Bell Pottinger and a hospital in trouble

2007.04.11: Letter from 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries over go-live of system under the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.04.11: A useful step forward for the NHS

2007.04.10: Another important comment from a reader on the blog entry: why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory

2007.04.10: Excellent reader comment on blog entry: why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory.

2007.04.10: Why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory.

2007.04.05: More openness needed over the model IT system for the NHS in Southern England

2007.04.04: More trouble for Isoft?

2007.04.02: Whitehall officials did not want external report on NHS's £12.4bn IT scheme published

2007.04.02: Memorable quotes - Bill Thompson, technology essayist

2007.04.02: Scope creep - the biggest threat to successful IT-based change management projects?

2007.03.30: Eight generalisations on IT-related projects and programmes

2007.03.29: How far has NHS IT come in 7 years?

2007.03.29: Choose and Book - some unanswered questions

2007.03.29: British Computer Society criticisms of the NHS's National Programme for IT - no response from Whitehall yet

2007.03.29: Health Committee inquiry kicks off with evidence from Richard Granger, Director General of NHS IT

2007.03.28: Job advert for £100k+ Pan-Strategic Health Authority NPfIT programme director

2007.03.28: CSC - the most open of the NHS's Local Service Providers

2007.03.22: Crisis management experts at HC2007 Harrogate healthcare IT conference?

2007.03.22: One easy way to access this blog

2007.03.22: Has Lord Hunt, minister in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT, fallen into the trap of hyperbole and over-optimism?

2007.03.22: Lord Hunt, Health Minister, full text of his speech on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.03.22: Memorable quotes - Dr Phil Candy, a Director at NHS Connecting for Health

2007.03.21: What's £3.5bn between friends?

2007.03.21: Gordon Brown's HM Revenue and Customs is locked into Accenture - perhaps indefinitely

2007.03.21: How do you deal with a failed or part-failed project?

2007.03.20: Lord Hunt, the not so relaxed minister in charge of the NHS's National Programme

2007.03.20: The biggest challenge - speech by Lord Hunt, minister in charge of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT

2007.03.08: Is the NHS's National Programme for IT in crisis management mode?

2007.03.08: Anonymous comment on NHS Connecting for Health's decision to withdraw speakers from Harrogate healthcare IT conference

2007.03.06: Private Eye special report on NHS IT programme

2007.03.06: The biggest cause of IT failures ... and where it leaves ID cards and the NHS IT programme

2007.03.06: Connecting for Health pulls speakers from Europe's largest healthcare IT conference at Harrogate

2007.02.28: Memorable Quotes

2007.02.27: Views of two suppliers on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.02.27: Tories renew their call for a full review of the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.02.23: Dispatches C4 documentary programme on Monday 26 February on the NHS

2007.02.23: The NHS IT programme - a "much more open dialogue" - David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS.

2007.02.22: Delivering a vision - whatever that means

2007.02.20: Defending the NHS's National Programme for IT?

2007.02.19: Private Eye 8-page supplement and Channel Four documentary report on the NHS's National Programme for IT

2007.02.19: When an IT-based project runs into trouble, should you respond by arguing its aims are well supported?

2007.02.17: Sent to me by a GP

2007.02.16: Confidential IT contracts may have to be disclosed - Information Tribunal decision under the Freedom of Information Act

2007.02.13: Supplier to £12bn NHS IT scheme questions whether key aspects will work

2007.02.09: Health Committee inquiry into the NHS IT programme - details announced

2007.02.07: NHS IT programme at risk even if technically sound?

2007.02.05: IT projects - links to some of the more important reports on mistakes, incompetence and lessons learned

2007.02.03: Lessons learned from failure of online passport application system EPA2

2007.02.02: Passport Service director: Why we’re going public on things we didn’t always get right

2007.02.01: What went wrong - MP3 files on our interview with Bernard Herdan, Executive Director, Service Director, Identity and Passport Service

2007.02.01: Comment - when failure has a partly positive outcome

2007.01.31: Smartcard sharing - comment by Martyn Thomas

2007.01.30: Smartcard sharing by an NHS trust - a breach of IT security or a practical way around slow access to the NHS Care Records Service?

2007.01.30: South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust statement to Computer Weekly on smartcard sharing

2007.01.29: Selling the NHS's National Programme for IT - a PR challenge

2007.01.24: EDS’s settlement with the government over tax credits

2007.01.23: What contribution to NHS IT do Local Service Providers make?

2007.01.23: Tom Brooks - opinion piece - What contribution to NHS IT do Local Service Providers make?

2007.01.22: Is the NHS's National Programme for IT costing too much?

2007.01.16: Identity and Passport Service director: Why we’re going public on IT projects we didn’t always get right

2007.01.16: NHS's National Programme for IT - a consultant's one-sentence view

2007.01.11: An influential health user who has criticised aspects of NHS National Programme for IT is to join BT, one of the scheme's main suppliers

2007.01.11: Lord Hunt - a good choice of minister in charge of the NHS's National Programme for IT?

2007.01.10: Robin Guenier comments on British Computer Society's paper on way forward for NHS's IT programme

2007.01.10: No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back

2007.01.09: Top campaigner for independent review of NHS's IT scheme receives New Year Honour

2007.01.04: Around 1,000 staff leave CSC - a key supplier to the £12.4bn NHS scheme

2006.12.19: Confidential NHS paper on the health of the National Programme for IT

2006.12.19: Why NHS IT matters

2006.12.15: HM Revenue and Customs, the Public Accounts Committee and accountability

2006.12.15: NPfIT Choose and Book Severity 1 incident

2006.12.15: Lord Warner well-briefed on the NPfIT before retirement decision

2006.12.14: Choose and Book stalls after software upgrade

2006.12.14: Lord Warner, minister in charge of the NHS's National Programme for IT "retires".

2006.12.12: Joint investigation on NHS IT by Computer Weekly and Channel Four News

2006.12.07: Connecting for Health unilaterally changes wording of agreed statement

2006.11.29: Mysterious deaths, freedom of information, Marconi and the Ministry of Defence

2006.11.28: Brave minister Lord Warner sees £12bn NPfIT NHS plan at first hand

2006.11.28: How the Health Committee took decision to hold NHS NPfIT inquiry

2006.11.28: Are briefings to ministers on the NPfIT optimistic?

2006.11.28: Churchill's world speech on IT projects?

2006.11.24: What doctors say about the NPfIT National Programme for IT

2006.11.23: Learning lessons - the advantages of mistakes

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