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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
February 2008
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Police won’t use national e-health records for fishing - government pledge
28 Feb 2008 -
Why the fuss over sharing patient data with police and other authorities?
28 Feb 2008 -
Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records
- Nemertes Research 28 Feb 2008
Lord Warner, one in a line of health ministers who was once in charge of the NHS’s National Programme for IT – NPfIT – suggested to the BBC “Today” programme on 18 December 2006 that police will ...
In response to the blog entry about police being allowed to request searches of a national database which supports the Secondary Uses Service an anonymous reader makes points many will agree with. ...
News analysis It went largely unnoticed but the minister for the NHS’s National Programme for IT, Ben Bradshaw, has confirmed that data on a central database of millions of confidential health ...
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Chip and pin flaws - are security evaluations robust?
26 Feb 2008 -
B'ham Council's SAP system - local MP remains defensive
26 Feb 2008 -
Downing St NPfIT papers - full set (as released by Cabinet Office)
25 Feb 2008 -
Government CIO Council turns green
25 Feb 2008 -
What Blair, Microsoft and Cisco said at Downing St on NHS IT reform
21 Feb 2008 -
The trouble with government IT projects - Colin Beveridge
21 Feb 2008 -
What officials promised Blair on NHS IT reform - release of secret papers
20 Feb 2008
Researchers at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory say they have shown that chip and pin machines are not as secure as the banking industry claims. They claim that two widely-deployed models ...
The brave and campaigning Birmingham MP John Hemming is continuing to use an online forum to defend the city council and its SAP-based “Voyager” system. For nearly a month Hemming has regularly ...
This is the set of papers supplied by the Cabinet Office after my request under the Freedom of Information Act in January 2005 for details of a meeting at Downing Street in February 2002 to discuss ...
The Government’s CIO Council is planning a “green” strategy for the public sector which includes cutting tens of thousands of printers, buying PCs by how little power they use as well as price, and ...
On a planned IT-led modernisation of the NHS, Tony Blair said at a meeting at Downing Street on 18 February 2002 that there were three main issues: - to ensure the NHS had the right systems - how ...
Colin Beveridge of the Better Practice Forum has sent these comments on our coverage of the Downing Street papers on the National Programme for IT – NPfIT. His comments refer also to some other ...
Among the Downing Street papers released by the Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act was the Department of Health’s briefing to Tony Blair. The briefing was given to Blair four days ...
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Was NHS IT plan agreed before Downing St meeting?
19 Feb 2008 -
National Audit Office due to publish 2nd report on NPfIT by May 2008
19 Feb 2008 -
Secret papers reveal Blair's rushed NPfIT plans
18 Feb 2008 -
More than £4bn spent on NPfIT by April 2008
18 Feb 2008 -
Who was at Downing Street NPfIT meeting?
17 Feb 2008
Among the Downing Street papers released to Computer Weekly by the Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act is a letter which indicates that the NHS IT programme was agreed largely ...
The National Audit Office is at a draft report stage after a second investigation into the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. It's expected the National Audit Office will publish its second ...
Summary of article - Tony Blair tried repeatedly to shorten the time to make health records available online, which would have made them available to patients shortly before the 2005 general ...
By the end of next month (March 2008) just over £4bn of centrally-directed funds will have been spent on the NHS's National Programme for IT. The figure includes money spent by NHS Connecting for ...
The “Downing Street papers” released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the names of some of those who attended a meeting, chaired by Tony Blair, which spawned the NHS’s £12.4bn National ...