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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
November 2007
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Is waning interest in HMRC's missing CDs letting government off the hook?
28 Nov 2007 -
HMRC’s extreme reaction to missing CDs
28 Nov 2007 -
Government spin – Whitehall tries to disparage our NHS article
28 Nov 2007
A reader Neil McIntosh makes the worthwhile point that media interest over HMRC's two missing CDs, which contain child benefit data, is waning - which is inevitable - but does this let the ...
A computer systems manager has written to us about an extreme reaction by HM Revenue and Customs to two CDs which went missing. The CDs contained the names and bank details of more than seven ...
On 22 November I asked a straightforward question of NHS Connecting for Health which runs part of the NHS’s £12.4bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The question: Could you let me know, by end of ...
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Will patient data go overseas?
27 Nov 2007 -
Missing CDs – an excuse for ministers to attack the NAO?
23 Nov 2007 -
Missing CDs - why the NAO wanted millions of child benefit records
23 Nov 2007 -
HMRC's missing Child Benefit CDs - what went wrong and lessons for NPfIT and ID cards
21 Nov 2007 -
Grim 2007 Medix survey results on the £12.4bn NHS's National Programme for IT
20 Nov 2007 -
£5bn Defence Information Infrastructure - leaders talk about progress, problems and lessons
20 Nov 2007 -
Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project
- Nemertes Research 20 Nov 2007
A Department of Health document reveals that a review has been underway into the possibility of allowing sensitive NHS patient data to be processed overseas, we have learned. Some GPs are concerned ...
What’s disturbing is the way the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and the Prime Minister Gordon Brown are using the incident of the missing discs to dent the credibility of the NAO, an ...
Evidence has emerged of why the National Audit Office asked HM Revenue and Customs for a large download of information from the child benefit database. After receiving the request, HM Revenue and ...
The practice of sending across the country unencrypted, CD-based files on millions of child benefit claimants could have continued indefinitely if the discs hadn’t gone missing, we have learned. ...
The results of the latest Medix survey of more than 1,000 doctors, who were questioned on the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT], make grim reading. Looked at on their own, the results imply ...
The two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium, which is led by services supplier EDS, have spoken ...
In this blog entry the two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium of suppliers, led by services ...
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NPfIT conspirators and a different PR approach to DII problems
20 Nov 2007 -
The £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project - was original plan too ambitious?
16 Nov 2007 -
BT - good news on the NHS's National Programme for IT
13 Nov 2007 -
BSkyB puts its legal costs of dispute with EDS at £32m
12 Nov 2007 -
HMRC cuts annual IT costs and gives Capgemini contract extension worth more than £1bn
09 Nov 2007
I've posted on this blog answers to questions I had put to two senior executives who are running the £5bn contract for a new Defence Information Infrastructure [DII]. They talk about the scheme’s ...
Comment and analysis on investigation by Computer Weekly and Channel 4 News on the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure [DII] Like the NHS National Programme for IT, the Ministry of Defence’s ...
In a report on its latest financial results BT has issued a reassuring statement about its work on the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The statement does not deviate from the government’s ...
The combined legal costs of the High Court dispute between British Sky Broadcasting Group [BSkyB] and EDS are likely to exceed £55m, more than first thought. BSkyB has made provisions in its ...
HM Revenue and Customs has struck a deal with its IT supplier Capgemini that cuts the annual technology spend by hundreds of millions over the life of the contract. The agreement compensates the ...