Public Sector IT
April 2007
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MP calls for closure of "nightmare" NHS computer agency
16 Apr 2007 -
The NHS National Programme for IT may fail to deliver what's required
16 Apr 2007 -
Edward Leigh, chairman of Public Accounts Committee, on NHS National Programme for IT
16 Apr 2007
Richard Bacon MP said today (Tuesday 17 April 2007) that the health service would be better off without Connecting for Health, the Department of Health agency responsible running the national ...
A nine-month investigation of the NHS's IT programme by an all-party committee of MPs has found that the £12.4bn scheme, the UK's largest IT investment, may fail to deliver what is required by the ...
It's not generally realised that the National Audit Office quietly drafts press releases issued by the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. So it's worth looking carefully at the wording of ...
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The worst that can happen now is for ministers to go into denial mode
16 Apr 2007 -
Behind the scenes of Public Accounts Committee report on NHS National Programme for IT
16 Apr 2007 -
NHS National Programme for IT - report of Public Accounts Committee to be published
16 Apr 2007 -
Excellent article on the dangers of government secrecy
12 Apr 2007 -
Prolonging a failing IT project
12 Apr 2007 -
Not quite direct answers to straight questions
11 Apr 2007 -
NHS Connecting for Health, Bell Pottinger and a hospital in trouble
11 Apr 2007
Five years into the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] a report of the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee has depicted the scheme as a failure so far. The all-party committee spent ...
Behind the scenes experts at the National Audit Office have played a key role in helping to produce the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] Last June ...
After a nine-month investigation the Public Accounts Committee is expected to publish a hard-hitting report on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] tomorrow [17 April]. Parliamentary ...
An article on The Register's website highlights some of the dangers of government secrecy. It is here. It says that government secrecy over deals with the private sector can be "self-defeating, and ...
Rather than pull the plug on a failing IT project the US National Security Agency tried for six years to save its "Trailblazer" scheme. It transferred management responsibility to different teams ...
NHS Connecting for Health, which runs the £12.4bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT], is at times putting on its website replies to our questions before we have published articles related to the ...
Comment: There's something extraordinary about the IT-related difficulties at Milton Keynes General Hospital. We are not so surprised at the allegations made by 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries ...
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Letter from 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries over go-live of NHS IT system
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A useful step forward for the NHS
11 Apr 2007 -
Another important comment from a reader: why governments invest in big high-risk projects
10 Apr 2007 -
Excellent reader comment: why governments invest in big high-risk projects - one theory
10 Apr 2007 -
Why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory.
10 Apr 2007
This is a letter signed by 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries at Milton Keynes General Hospital regarding the implementation of a Care Records Service under the NHS's National Programme for IT ...
This latest announcement from the Department of Health starts in the way statements from the department too often begin: with politically partsian hyperbole. But those with the perseverance to read ...
A reader Stuart Roebuck makes the following important point on the blog entry: why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory "One problem with the way government ...
David, a reader, makes this strong point on the blog entry: why governments are persuaded to invest in big high-risk projects - one theory. "There is one other major difference between private ...
A senior executive at a large IT company has given an insight into the things suppliers say to ministers when selling big technology-based schemes to the public sector. Their highly effective ...