dade72 - Fotolia
Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
March 2008
-
An incorrect NPfIT statement to the House of Commons
31 Mar 2008 -
Public sector outsourcing users paying up to 75% over market rates
28 Mar 2008 -
Errors in thousands of records in prisoner tracking system - internal EDS study
27 Mar 2008
Officials at NHS Connecting for Health answer most media inquiries – but they have not yet replied to questions about a little-noticed speech in the House of Commons by the health minister Ben ...
Compass, which helps users of outsourcing check whether they are paying market prices, is warning the government that public sector outsourcing is costing up to 75% over the market rate. The ...
A study of the Prison Service’s database of prisoner records has found thousands of omissions and inaccuracies, including the use of “self-harm” or no entry at all in the surname field. Prison ...
-
NPfIT leaflet says national database could save your life
25 Mar 2008 -
Will mass opt-outs leave NPfIT summary care record project in chaos?
25 Mar 2008 -
FOI papers reveal more lessons from Bolton NPfIT trials
19 Mar 2008 -
NPfIT executives will stand by Lorenzo
19 Mar 2008 -
Top doctors too "excited" by the NPfIT?
18 Mar 2008 -
NPfIT spending £1.5bn less than expected
14 Mar 2008 -
BBC R4's "Today" and the High Court case over ID Card Gateway reviews
12 Mar 2008
- NPfIT clinical director says opting out of national database of summary care records could be more prejudicial to health than not having a smear test - GP IT spokesman says leaflet being sent to ...
Martyn Thomas, visiting professor of software engineering at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory, has expressed concerns about the leaflet that's being given to patients who want to opt out of ...
Papers released by Bolton Primary Care Trust under the Freedom of Information highlight some of the lessons learned from its trial of the NPfIT summary care records system. We’ve already reported ...
Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service implementation on the NHS National Programme for IT - NPfIT – has affirmed his team’s commitment to the “Lorenzo” product from suppliers CSC ...
Comment: At a press conference in Whitehall last week [13 March 2008] doctors who work on different parts of the NHS’s National Programme for IT – NPfIT – flanked the health minister Ben Bradshaw. ...
Spending on the NHS’s national IT scheme up to April 2007 was £1.5bn less than the Department of Health had expected, according to figures released by the government yesterday [13 March 2008]. The ...
BBC Radio 4's Today programme broadcast an item this week [10 March 2008 - 6.50am] on our article about the Office of Government Commerce's appeal to the High Court over a ruling of the Information ...
-
High Court case on ID Cards Gateway reviews, the 1689 Bill of Rights and Commons' Speaker
10 Mar 2008 -
New ID cards timetable - as robust as NPfIT pledges?
07 Mar 2008 -
BBC R4's "Today" and our article on the NPfIT summary care record
03 Mar 2008 -
No qualifications needed to access national health records database
03 Mar 2008
How did the 1689 Bill of Rights come to be at the centre of a High Court case last week about Gateway reviews and the ID Cards scheme? The case was brought on behalf of the government by the ...
In a speech yesterday [6 March 2008] the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced a revised timetable for ID cards – as if ministerial predictions on IT-based projects have a profound meaning. Said ...
An article in Computer Weekly, which disclosed that NHS staff can, without the need for professional qualifications, access the national summary care records database, was discussed by GP Paul ...
A new national database of confidential patient records is being opened to access by NHS staff who need no professional qualifications - despite official assurances that access to the summary care ...