Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog: Archives

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2009.11.20: Four IT project certainties - whatever the government
2009.11.17: Comments of patient "victims" of smartcard security breach
2009.11.16: NPfIT politics and the NHS smartcard security breach
2009.11.16: Ex-NHS CIO is new head of BCS's Health Informatics Forum
2009.11.16: Police investigate NHS smartcard security breach as SCR launches in London
2009.11.12: NPfIT minister reveals Lorenzo costs and payments to BT and CSC
2009.11.12: What MPs said about State IT projects in 1984
2009.11.11: Council to re-use old IT - a social inclusion exemplar
2009.11.11: 500k fines for data protection breaches - but what about Govt breaches?
2009.11.10: The NPfIT and Cézanne compared
2009.11.05: iSoft says Bury Lorenzo go-live takes healthcare to "new level"
2009.11.04: Biggest IT industry failures?
2009.11.04: Anatomy of an IT disaster
2009.10.30: NPfIT Lorenzo - £57,500 per user so far
2009.10.29: Minister renews faith in Cerner and Lorenzo - but "challenges remain"
2009.10.29: NPfIT Lorenzo - is the cost per user frightening?
2009.10.28: Labour MP: blacklist some IT suppliers
2009.10.22: Reports of the NAO on risky IT projects - has a precedent been set?
2009.10.22: Government 2010 today
2009.10.21: National Audit Office hits brick wall over Defra agency's IT failure
2009.10.19: £350m Rural Payments Agency IT: pouring money into a digital landfill?
2009.10.15: The NAO's most serious criticism of any IT-based project?
2009.10.08: David Cameron questions the point of the NPfIT
2009.10.07: BT heckled at its own open source conference
2009.10.07: Change of plan on ID Cards biometrics database?
2009.10.06: Barts and the dangers of NPfIT over-optimism
2009.10.05: Tories promise a new era of openness on IT projects
2009.10.05: Packed Cerner health conference in Kansas City
2009.10.05: NPfIT may evolve into open market says iSoft
2009.10.05: Use of iSoft Lorenzo system grows at Hereford Hospitals
2009.10.05: Keep the NPfIT say 80% of doctors and NHS IT experts
2009.10.05: Ten top technologies for boosting profits
2009.10.02: Divert some NPfIT money to mobile comms
2009.10.01: London NPfIT hospitals have 14,000 patients on 18-week backlog
2009.09.30: Six types of IT project failure
2009.09.30: Don't scrap the NPfIT?
2009.09.30: BT Health PR chief exits
2009.09.28: SRO changes threaten project success - and the NPfIT has had 6
2009.09.28: Government 2010 - how Web 2.0 is changing the State
2009.09.23: Can Brown or Cameron really make big IT cuts?
2009.09.23: Whitehall and the irritant FOI Act
2009.09.22: Ministers sit on draft NPfIT report - until after 2010 election?
2009.09.10: MPs want more innovation - and transparency over IT-based projects
2009.09.10: Coyness over 'open tender' KPMG health contract - a systemic problem surfaces?
2009.09.10: KPMG health contract - is this the DH "open tender"?
2009.09.09: PACS - jewel of the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme?
2009.09.08: Top CIO salaries in government beat the private sector
2009.09.08: EDS v Sky - what's happening?
2009.09.01: iSoft annual report - notes on the financial statement
2009.09.01: iSoft and Lorenzo - the good news keeps on coming?
2009.08.28: Is Fujitsu's predicted decline out of line with market?
2009.08.27: NPfIT - "real cost has been the things put on hold"
2009.08.25: Fujitsu v Department of Health? [2]
2009.08.25: Fujitsu v Connecting for Health?
2009.08.20: FT article on the NHS IT scheme - what has gone wrong
2009.08.20: NPfIT problems exaggerated says iSoft CEO
2009.08.19: Was EDS a good buy for HP?
2009.08.10: Confidential HMRC "Quantum" papers on cost-cutting plan
2009.08.10: Did HMRC scrap offshore idea after leak to media?
2009.08.10: Conservatives publish NHS IT policy pledges
2009.08.10: Whitehall dismisses Tory review report of NHS IT
2009.08.10: Is NPfIT a success? - US blog poll
2009.08.07: More details on HMRC "Quantum" plans to be published
2009.08.06: Moving towards error-free software - Martyn Thomas
2009.08.06: HMRC to offshore tax work? Follow-ups by Times, Telegraph and Mail
2009.08.05: HMRC to outsource sensitive tax work to India?
2009.08.04: Don't scrap NHS IT project
2009.07.30: Cerner's latest results: UK and US highlights
2009.07.30: Cerner hopes NHS IT revenues will rise to £61m a year
2009.07.29: We're all in for a shock - Government CIO
2009.07.29: NPfIT e-prescriptions: an important new step?
2009.07.29: Homerton rejects FOI NPfIT request
2009.07.29: NPfIT now known in the US - but for the right reasons?
2009.07.29: CIOs: how to waste money and get fired
2009.07.29: Does Cerner have a corporate responsibility to its mice?
2009.07.24: First Facebook defamation case
2009.07.24: OGC's release of Gateway review details - a good start
2009.07.24: EMIS to rescue the NPfIT Summary Care Record scheme?
2009.07.23: OGC publishes details of 23 Gateway reviews under FOI Act
2009.07.22: 20 million unresolved HMRC tax e-records
2009.07.22: Half a billion spent on CfH - good value for money?
2009.07.21: Should you trust staff with a self-service expenses system?
2009.07.15: Give Cerner a chance says ex-Royal Free employee
2009.07.15: Loss of data hits test plan for German e-health card
2009.07.07: When there are NHS IT problems don't mention Cerner
2009.07.07: What Air France Airbus crash says about Chinook ZD 576
2009.07.07: Google and Microsoft to take over NHS records?
2009.07.03: Doctors "almost in tears" over NPfIT system
2009.06.30: Airbus crash: can a triple-redundant system give false readings?
2009.06.26: Learning from mistakes - the success of ex-Govt CIO Watmore
2009.06.26: NHS CIO Christine Connelly's email in full
2009.06.26: NPfIT - Some good news
2009.06.25: NHS CIO email announces departure of NPfIT head
2009.06.24: Download of ruling on Gateway details on ID Cards and other projects
2009.06.24: CfH: we didn't really publish NHS IT Gateway Reviews
2009.06.24: UK NHS IT suppliers - Heal thyselves
2009.06.23: 16 key points in Gateway Reviews on NHS IT scheme
2009.06.23: Some SAP users unhappy with performance
2009.06.16: "You're flying too fast and too slow" - what to do?
2009.06.10: Ex-Gov't CIO favours publishing Gateway Reviews - OGC says no
2009.06.10: Now who's accountable for the NPfIT?
2009.06.05: Stop flying Chinooks: MoD memo written on day of fatal crash
2009.06.03: BT gets extra £815m from NPfIT
2009.06.03: NPfIT a spiralling disaster, says BMA leader
2009.06.02: Reform of MPs' expenses is a good time for IT reform
2009.06.01: Need a new passport? Now about your credit history
2009.05.29: How to delete your summary care record
2009.05.29: High level round-table on public sector IT in 2020
2009.05.29: What went wrong with £234m C-Nomis IT project
2009.05.28: Why we reject large-scale outsourcing
2009.05.26: The DVD Jacqui Smith is proud of
2009.05.22: 10 things about ID Cards
2009.05.21: 15 key websites
2009.05.21: Famous law firm acts for ex-NHS IT head Richard Granger
2009.05.21: Senior analyst "nearly killed" by e-records data model
2009.05.20: When politics infects IT
2009.05.15: Google Amazon Yahoo and eBay key business IT suppliers of the future?
2009.05.15: BT's writedown on London NPfIT contract
2009.05.14: CSC chief calls for next government to freeze NHS targets
2009.05.14: Legalities of sharing medical data? Just share it
2009.05.13: CSC president on NPfIT success and challenges
2009.05.13: NPfIT - the good and not so good
2009.05.12: When data sharing ruins lives
2009.05.12: Now Jacqui Smith is ready to run the Home Office
2009.05.11: What did Manchester do to deserve ID Cards trial?
2009.05.11: Passport IT souped up to keep ID Card costs down?
2009.05.11: Post masters under stress over accounts
2009.05.06: ID Cards £6bn benefits spin
2009.04.30: Whitehall clarifies NPfIT Lorenzo timetable
2009.04.30: Cerner share price at 52-week high
2009.04.30: Some Mod users vote on new £7bn DII systems
2009.04.30: NPfIT - what happens now in the south
2009.04.30: Barts' inpatient waiting list - worst in England?
2009.04.30: If NPfiT were a jumbo jet heaven help 747 flyers
2009.04.29: Barts responds over patients lost in NPfIT CRS system
2009.04.29: On BBC R4 Today - the database state and IT supplier lobbying
2009.04.16: Treasury silent on its mistake over £7bn DII project
2009.04.16: NPfIT critics and the Damian McBride smear culture
2009.04.16: What if unhealthy IT and practices kill patients?
2009.04.15: SAP go-live in Somerset - are initial problems "normal"?
2009.04.14: GM bankruptcy fears - what would it mean for EDS?
2009.04.14: Terrorists, drug-dealers and investigative journalists
2009.04.08: Heading for the £200 passport to help pay for ID Cards?
2009.04.08: A genuine NHS IT improvement
2009.04.08: In defence of NPfIT's "owner" David Nicholson
2009.04.07: CSC likely to acquire about 350 passports IT staff
2009.04.07: Gateway reviews on ID Cards - one impressive, one not
2009.04.06: Proof that £13bn NPfIT was supposed to cost £5bn
2009.04.06: Whitehall learns it can't force IT on unwilling users
2009.03.31: Meeting your company's targets - a one-sentence Sir Humphrey guide
2009.03.30: Why I'm opting out of e-records - chair, maternity association
2009.03.30: Why Downing St makes some ill-informed IT decisions?
2009.03.26: What happened to £161m on prisons IT? NAO isn't sure
2009.03.26: Banned list of council jargon - now staff face fines
2009.03.26: "I'm all for more government databases"
2009.03.25: Jargon and cliches that cost software staff money
2009.03.23: Database state - the evidence
2009.03.20: Government defends "red" light on ID Cards Gateway review
2009.03.20: Jargon ban - a hostile reaction by some in IT industry
2009.03.20: 'Secret' ID Cards Gateway reviews FOI release - key findings
2009.03.18: The jargon terms council leaders want banned
2009.03.18: IBM's jargon dictionary
2009.03.18: NPfIT consultant earned a year off
2009.03.18: Difficult to blog in the US on healthcare IT?
2009.03.13: C-Nomis £513m project - reality trumps our satire
2009.03.12: NAO report on C-Nomis - but it could have been on the NPfIT
2009.03.12: Failed £234m C-Nomis IT project - ministers not told full truth
2009.03.12: Budget? There wasn't one says new SRO who blew whistle on C-Nomis
2009.03.12: NPfIT doing a valuable job - Ex-logica Treasury minister
2009.03.12: NPfIT "proving a danger to patients" - Channel 4 film
2009.03.12: Dispatches film - a wasted opportunity?
2009.03.10: The NPfIT in 5 years?
2009.03.09: Some CfH contracts - from hotels to consultants
2009.03.09: C4 film tonight includes look at NPfIT
2009.02.27: Top 3 lessons from project leaders
2009.02.27: More NPfIT Lorenzo delays?
2009.02.26: Tribunal ruling politely ridicules the OGC
2009.02.26: Exemplar NPfIT site in US "endangers patients"
2009.02.25: ID Cards insider: scheme is "largest , most complex and sensitive undertaking in Government"
2009.02.25: Top tips for project managers?
2009.02.23: OGC loses FOI ID Cards battle - does it care?
2009.02.11: E-records may be banana skin for Obama - SCR expert
2009.02.11: Summary Care Record opt out - some challenges
2009.02.11: BT relief as NPfIT roll-outs in London due to resume
2009.02.11: Swindells: NPfIT needs to change
2009.02.11: Cerner revenues up 18% in 4th quarter
2009.02.03: NAO inquiry into government IT likely
2009.02.03: NPfIT and implications for the US?
2009.02.03: IBM and open government
2009.02.02: £18bn Government IT scandal - 3 pages in The Times today
2009.01.28: London trust hit by virus had a failure of processes
2009.01.27: NHS Confederation: we need NPfIT cash but spent differently
2009.01.27: Report of public accounts MPs on NHS IT - main findings
2009.01.27: NPfIT risks heightened says chairman of public accounts MPs
2009.01.27: Today's report by MPs on NHS IT scheme
2009.01.27: NPfIT central contracts will never work - MP tells BBC
2009.01.27: Much frustration over NPfIT says BBC correspondent
2009.01.22: Post-it notes for passwords - an NHS option?
2009.01.22: A strong defence of NPfIT Choose and Book
2009.01.21: President of Royal College of Surgeons attacks Choose and Book
2009.01.21: Interview with CEO of NPfIT "break-away" trust
2009.01.16: NPfIT contracts more than knee-high
2009.01.16: Ominous court ruling for users - supplier exclusion clauses upheld
2009.01.15: NPfIT officials threatened Foundation trust with penalty
2009.01.15: Foundation trust forfeits "free" Lorenzo PAS and buys its own
2009.01.15: Officials threaten to charge "rebel" trusts for NPfIT Lorenzo
2009.01.15: Key parts of today's report by MPs on £7bn DII project
2009.01.15: Statement on DII by Public Accounts Committee chairman
2009.01.13: The new Information Commissioner?
2009.01.06: 12 most visited pages on IT Projects blog in 2008
2008.12.01: Long-term NPfIT users lacked confidence in CRS data
2008.12.01: Patient delays at Abu Dhabi Cerner site "transitional"
2008.12.01: Cerner unveils hospital room of the future
2008.12.01: NPfIT harmed by poor communications
2008.11.19: Cerner and BT in Royal Free NPfIT rescue plan - but a setback for NPfIT vision of standard systems
2008.11.19: "Major" virus incident at Barts and The London
2008.11.14: Daily Mail GP attacks NPfIT and calls for smartcard records
2008.11.11: Ministers seriously worried about the NPfIT
2008.11.11: GP's transfer away from EMIS wasn't seamless
2008.11.11: Data losses: a free practical guide to avoiding them
2008.11.10: NPfIT minister was wrong in reply on records leaving NHS
2008.11.10: Suppliers of surveillance IT face public backlash
2008.11.05: Morecambe Bay pilots NPfIT Lorenzo version 1
2008.11.05: The Sunday Times: NPfIT is bleeding money
2008.11.05: The future of IT (and gadgets in the skin) - the next 100 years
2008.11.05: Respond to data sharing consultation as a patient
2008.10.30: Gordon Brown faces claim that NPfIT doesn't work
2008.10.29: NHS defers 2008 e-record go-lives - and FOI disclosures
2008.10.29: Data losses may jeopardize lives says Information Commissioner
2008.10.27: Patient data leaves NHS - officials answer our questions
2008.10.20: Council employee offered live NHS data for training
2008.10.20: Users list top IT security concerns
2008.10.20: Can too much IT security be bad for business?
2008.10.14: Chaotic targets for the NHS? That's quite normal, director told
2008.10.13: Lost MoD drive hadn't required encryption says EDS
2008.10.13: Missing MoD hard drive from secure EDS site: comment
2008.10.13: Our interview with MoD over EDS missing hard drive
2008.10.07: ASSIST says NHS one-size-fits-all doesn't work
2008.10.05: Hospital has long-term NPfIT problems, warns paper
2008.10.01: Missing NHS discs found - but incident costs £25,000
2008.09.30: NPfIT Cerner: a user writes
2008.09.30: BSkyB v EDS - a crucial judgement for IT industry?
2008.09.29: New Labour's unlucky 13 IT projects
2008.09.22: Patient dismay as medical data shared with council
2008.09.19: HMRC again threatens legal action against EDS
2008.09.17: Quote of the week
2008.09.17: Lib-dems' Vince Cable: stop questionable IT projects
2008.09.17: CSC's talks over £3bn NPfIT contract re-set nearing end
2008.09.17: Sharing patient records - Whitehall consults
2008.09.15: Cerner: some pros and cons
2008.09.11: PA Consulting's remorse over prison data loss
2008.09.11: E-records without a central database?
2008.09.11: NPfIT break-away trust reveals business case details
2008.09.11: Newcastle's break-away trust: "NPfIT was taking forever"
2008.09.10: NPfIT lull - some trusts may not wait says Ovum
2008.09.04: NPfIT in the south - interim CIO outlines interim plan
2008.09.02: Barts: we underestimated impact of NPfIT go-live
2008.09.01: Major problems "not inevitable" after major change
2008.09.01: Fujitsu seeks £700m over failed NPfIT contract
2008.09.01: The Guardian reports on London NPfIT go-lives
2008.09.01: Trust CEO warns over possible NPfIT compensation claim
2008.09.01: London trust may claim after NPfIT problems
2008.08.22: BBC R4 Today - why did PA have prison database download?
2008.08.20: National press reports on NPfIT go-lives in London
2008.08.19: NPfIT go-live at Barnet and Chase Farm - the facts
2008.08.19: New NHS IT leaders - good news for the NPfIT?
2008.08.14: NPfIT supplier BT is "stretched to deliver"
2008.08.12: Choose and Book - bookings aren't always appointments
2008.08.11: Choose and Book - making progress?
2008.08.07: New health IT leaders with joint salaries of £400k
2008.08.07: Trust chief execs pressed to buy NPfIT systems from CSC or BT?
2008.08.07: Some Cerner NPfIT go-lives a step forward - SHA chair
2008.08.07: NPfIT lessons - from South Africa
2008.08.07: "Funny" Connecting for Health NPfIT video on YouTube
2008.08.07: Fujitsu supports NPfIT Cerner sites until 28 November
2008.08.06: NHS IT problems, 999 crash and Evening Standard
2008.08.05: Pioneering London hospital hit by crashes and delays
2008.08.04: NPfIT Choose and Book fails to give choice to patients?
2008.07.31: Is Fujitsu's withdrawal from NPfIT good news?
2008.07.31: IBM's partner in £400m deal calls for less jargon
2008.07.30: Fujitsu's leaving NPfIT is a sign of strength - minister
2008.07.28: BCS reaction to NHS Informatics Review
2008.07.28: SATs and government praise of ETS
2008.07.25: Credit crunch: some outsourcing deals likely to end
2008.07.24: NHS IT in the stone age?
2008.07.24: Skills shortage? - Fujitsu NPfIT staff could help
2008.07.24: Documentary on IBM £400m deal - a summary
2008.07.23: IBM seeks to stop council divulging £400m contract details
2008.07.23: Any witty suggestions for these pictures?
2008.07.23: SATs and other failures - one explanation
2008.07.16: Our NPfIT evidence to House of Lords inquiry
2008.07.15: Informatics Review and NPfIT: an opportunity
2008.07.14: Whitehall avoids open tenders where possible
2008.07.11: The NPfIT summed up 6 years on?
2008.07.10: NHS shouldn't wait for NPfIT's main products
2008.07.10: Health Informatics Review
2008.07.10: Are OGC gateway reviews working?
2008.07.09: Fujitsu quitting NPfIT - how two trusts reacted
2008.07.09: Swindells NHS IT review due tomorrow
2008.07.07: BBC TV reports on "another" government IT failure
2008.07.07: Some PR officials more and more manipulative
2008.07.07: MoD replies to spin claim on DII project
2008.07.07: Not all Fujitsu's fault
2008.07.07: CSC assurances on morale, pay, training and travel
2008.07.04: MoD DII project could cost £7bn
2008.07.02: HMRC considered "PR offensive" to counter missing CDs publicity
2008.06.27: BBC and Evening Standard on NPfIT problems at BARTS
2008.06.27: Barts delays urgent cancer visits after NPfIT go-live
2008.06.26: Some highlights of Poynter report on HMRC missing CDs
2008.06.25: HMRC loss of child benefit CDs - latest
2008.06.25: Everyday NPfIT security breaches - don't tell us says NHS head
2008.06.25: Hansard cleans up a tense exchange on NPfIT
2008.06.23: NPfIT Lorenzo - replaced for time being by new software?
2008.06.20: Unite tries to save 700 Fujitsu NPfIT job cuts
2008.06.20: Alert over NPfIT Lorenzo?
2008.06.19: Password-sharing - don't shoot doctors says clinical lead
2008.06.19: Secret report on NPfIT Lorenzo: hundreds of issues
2008.06.18: NPfIT systems not so resilient
2008.06.18: Politics and NPfIT clash - a pity for patients
2008.06.18: Fujitsu in 2007 "We're in NPfIT to stay"
2008.06.17: Fujitsu says NHS's NPfIT terms were unaffordable
2008.06.17: NHS head is content about rejecting NPfIT review
2008.06.16: MPs get NPfIT Lorenzo demo amid new delays
2008.06.10: Qinetiq sues over cancelled police IT project
2008.06.09: NPfIT - a prescient warning from 2002
2008.06.09: NPfIT - Care Records more than 4 years late
2008.06.05: NPfIT: Fujitsu may not be replaced
2008.06.04: Informed comment on Fujitsu's withdrawal
2008.06.02: Chinook ZD576 - a rare, perhaps unique, photo
2008.05.30: Password-sharing hinders probe into serious blunder
2008.05.30: Talks on whether to replace Fujitsu on NPfIT
2008.05.29: Fujitsu to withdraw from the NPfIT - what happens now?
2008.05.27: New doubts on Chinook crash ruling
2008.05.27: Crash of Chinook ZD576 - Excerpt from "Raf Justice"
2008.05.27: Does Chinook crash matter 14 years on?
2008.05.22: Sky v EDS - 7 months in and nowhere near finished
2008.05.22: The NPfIT and 3 common causes of failure
2008.05.19: Companies run by women make more money - Intellect
2008.05.19: Dissent at Birmingham over SAP project continues
2008.05.16: This blog unavailable 3 hours tomorrow morning
2008.05.16: Highlights of National Audit Office NPfIT report
2008.05.16: Interview with co-authors of NAO report on NPfIT
2008.05.16: Whitehall reaction to NAO report on the NPfIT - updated
2008.05.16: National Audit Office report on NPfIT - 4 years late but feasible
2008.05.16: Comment on National Audit Office report on the NPfIT
2008.05.16: The Times' editorial on the NPfIT
2008.05.16: NPfIT in "crisis" says Public Accounts MP
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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