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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
July 2007
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Confidential briefing to Tony Blair on the NHS's National Programme for IT
31 Jul 2007 -
BBC File on Four programme on ID cards - tonight, July 31 2007
31 Jul 2007 -
HM Revenue and Customs pays a strange compliment to its ASPIRE tax credits suppliers
26 Jul 2007
Analysis NHS Connecting for Health has published on its website one slide from a “confidential” briefing presentation to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair on the NHS’s £12.4bn National Programme ...
BBC's Radio Four's File on 4 documentary series is broadcasting a programme tonight [31 July 2007] on the ID cards scheme and whether it's likely to work. Computer Weekly staff contributed to the ...
It's said that praise shouldn't consist of a stream of adjectives. Praise lies in the facts and the way of telling them. HM Revenue and Customs struggles sometimes with the way it presents facts. ...
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How the NHS IT programme, TPP's SystmOne, CSC and BT can help GPs during the floods
24 Jul 2007 -
Investigation into "unauthorised" Google sponsored link for NHS Connecting for Health
20 Jul 2007 -
Eight reasons for failed IT-based projects - according to Borland
18 Jul 2007 -
Does the National Audit Office fail to hold senior responsible owners to account?
17 Jul 2007 -
Ben Bradshaw expected to be 13th ministerial spokesman for NHS National Programme for IT
16 Jul 2007 -
Policing IT in government - is the National Audit Office too timid?
16 Jul 2007 -
Loss of 1.3 million medical files in the US - implications for the NHS National Programme for IT
16 Jul 2007
One result of the floods is that a GP practice in North East Lincolnshire is working from a neighbouring practice, and another is working from a local hospital's accident and emergency department. ...
The Department of Health has begun an investigation into how an "unauthorised" sponsored link on Google was acquired for NHS Connecting for Health which runs the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme ...
1. Lack of clarity - about roles, responsibilities and requirements 2. Lack of defining and managing project requirements and failure to communicate these from project sponsors to developers 3. ...
On this blog on 16 July 2007 I posted a piece that asked whether the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office is too timid. A reader has posted an excellent reply. A blog reader writes: ...
Ministers who are appointed as spokespeople for the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] come and go. This is the roll call so far: John Reid, John Hutton, Lord Hunt, Liam Byrne, Hazel Blears, ...
Comment: A report of the US Office of Inspector General on the loss of more than one million health records recommends that action be taken against individuals after a hard drive containing ...
A medical organisation cited by the Department of Health as a reference site for the NHS Care Records Service has been criticised by a US regulator after 1.3 million sensitive files went missing. ...
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When things go wrong great leaders look in the mirror
12 Jul 2007 -
Replacing Richard Granger as head of NPfIT - how much does it matter to government who it is?
11 Jul 2007 -
Eleven statements that may be early warnings of an IT-related project failure
05 Jul 2007 -
Gordon Brown faces a question on EDS over tax credits systems
04 Jul 2007 -
Health Secretary announces review of NHS - which could affect £12.4bn NPfIT at time of cost pressure
04 Jul 2007
A useful general principle of project management is highlighted by a reader of E-Health Insider. The comment was made in response to a media interview given by Richard Granger, Director General of ...
Many people inside and outside the NHS are asking: who is going to replace Richard Granger as head of NHS Connecting for Health? The assumption is that whoever replaces Richard Granger will be in ...
(based on years of chronicling dozens of IT-related project failures) 1) “It’s after all the biggest project of its kind.” 2) “So milestones have been put back a few times, objectives have changed, ...
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown was told today (4 July 2007) that it could take up to 106 years for IT supplier EDS to pay all the money due as part of a legal settlement over problems with tax ...
Alan Johnson has today (4 July 2007) announced an independent review of the NHS which will help inform the Treasury when it sets the funding for the health service as part of the 2007 Comprehensive ...