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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
June 2007
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Warnings in 2002 on the NHS's National Programme for IT were prescient
29 Jun 2007 -
A reader asks: Are Microsoft's Exchange 2007 Client Access Licences part of NHS agreements?
29 Jun 2007 -
Alan Johnson - a good choice as political head of NHS's National Programme for IT
28 Jun 2007
In July 2002, shortly after the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] was announced, Computer Weekly published a comment piece on the risks and lack of debate. The article was by Robin Guenier ...
In 2004 the then Health Secretary John Reid announced that a "ground-breaking" and "landmark" deal had been struck with Microsoft after talks with Bill Gates and the supplier's Steve Ballmer. The ...
Gordon Brown has made a good decision in appointing Alan Johnson as Secretary of State for Health. He's independently minded and so is likely to see the £12.4bn NHS's National Programme for IT ...
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One view on how to tackle government IT-related failures
28 Jun 2007 -
Connecting for Health, the NHS's National Programme for IT and a constrained form of openness
27 Jun 2007 -
Government spin - more reaction
27 Jun 2007 -
An open letter to Gordon Brown on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT]
25 Jun 2007 -
NHS IT loses a most valuable asset - comment on the announced departure of Richard Granger
25 Jun 2007 -
Government spin precedent - UK Liberty comment
21 Jun 2007 -
Thanks in part to NPfIT, 100,000 NHS staff have bought Microsoft Office 2007 for less than £20
21 Jun 2007
Sarah Burnett of the Bulter Group has some worthy views on how to tackle government IT-related failures, even if her coinage of "proof-win" threatens to burden the IT industry with more jargon. She ...
We'd asked Connecting for Health, which runs major parts of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT], whether we could visit some of its NHS sites that have begun to use the Care Records ...
An article on this blog about a worrying precedent in government spin has caused a very minor ripple in the blogosphere. On 20 June 2007, an entry on the blog, entitled "Government spin - a ...
An open letter to the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls on him to take actions which, it says, could transform the NHS £12.4bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The letter is from Robin ...
It is a pity Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT, is to leave as head of Connecting for Health, the agency that is running the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The decision was his - he ...
On 20 June 2007, an entry on the blog was entitled "Government spin - a worrying precedent". It told the story of how the Department of Health had suggested changes to a speaker's comments after a ...
As part of an Enterprise Agreement deal struck by the beneficent Microsoft and the NHS, 100,000 NHS staff have acquired Microsoft Office 2007 for less than £20. It normally sells for about £370. To ...
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Government spin - a worrying precedent
20 Jun 2007 -
ID cards - minister's speech highlights the scheme's vague objectives
20 Jun 2007 -
Four challenges for Whitehall after departure of Richard Granger, head of NHS NPfIT
19 Jun 2007 -
Why the NHS's National Programme for IT can never fail, not in an accountable way at least
19 Jun 2007 -
The departure of Richard Granger, head of NHS IT
18 Jun 2007
An extraordinary story reaches me which pushes back the boundary of what is acceptable in government communications - what some call spin. Not even Orwell in 1984 had thought of this one. In recent ...
Comment Home Office minister Liam Byrne says in a speech "A 21st Century Public Good" that ID cards will become another great British institution. Perhaps the ID Cards scheme will follow the NHS's ...
A reader of this blog has raised some pertinent questions following the announcement that Richard Granger, Director General of NHS IT, is to quit as head of Connecting for Health, which runs the ...
Comment Health minister Lord Hunt who is currently a government spokesman for the National Programme for IT [NPfIT], has revealed in an unnoticed Parliamentary reply that the scheme has no end ...
It's not good news for the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] that Richard Granger, Director General of NHS IT and head of the technology part of the scheme, is to leave. Although there is no ...