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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
May 2008
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Password-sharing hinders probe into serious blunder
30 May 2008 -
Talks on whether to replace Fujitsu on NPfIT
30 May 2008 -
Fujitsu to withdraw from the NPfIT - what happens now?
29 May 2008
The sharing of passwords on a hospital x-ray system at a hospital in Devon has made it difficult to identify which doctor wrongly verified the treatment of a patient who died after a blunder. The ...
The Guardian has an article that NHS executives may not replace Fujitsu as the local service provider in the south of England for the National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. Indeed there have been ...
Only a week ago a deal aimed at rescuing the NHS's National Programme for IT in the south of England seemed imminent. Officials and Fujitsu had spent nearly a year negotiating changes to a 10-year ...
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New doubts on Chinook crash ruling
27 May 2008 -
Crash of Chinook ZD576 - Excerpt from "Raf Justice"
27 May 2008 -
Does Chinook crash matter 14 years on?
27 May 2008 -
Sky v EDS - 7 months in and nowhere near finished
22 May 2008 -
The NPfIT and 3 common causes of failure
22 May 2008 -
Companies run by women make more money - Intellect
19 May 2008 -
Dissent at Birmingham over SAP project continues
19 May 2008
This is a longer version of an article on ComputerWeekly.com A former senior officer who helped write rules for RAF accident inquiries has spoken publicly for the first time about his concerns over ...
Shortly after 7.30am on Friday June 2 1994, crew members of a Chinook helicopter, airframe registration number ZD576, had their last breakfast. They ate cereals; one had poached eggs as well, and ...
"Don't blame operators for lack of evidence". Below is an editorial we published in 2002 which explains Computer Weekly's interest in the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. ...
Sky's legal case against EDS - which has already lasted seven months - is expected to continue for at least another two months, and a judgement is unlikely much before Christmas (assuming there ...
A fellow blogger for Computer Weekly, Philip Virgo, has an excellent post today [22 May 2008] entitled "Why do we never learn and keep replicating failure?" Three points in particular struck me ...
Companies with the highest proportion of women in senior management have better return on equity and total returns to shareholders, according to the President of IT suppliers' association ...
An online forum, The Stirrer, which is popular with employees of Birmingham City Council, does what it says on the tin. It's being used by staff to air views and give information about problems ...
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This blog unavailable 3 hours tomorrow morning
16 May 2008 -
Highlights of National Audit Office NPfIT report
16 May 2008 -
Interview with co-authors of NAO report on NPfIT
16 May 2008 -
Whitehall reaction to NAO report on the NPfIT - updated
16 May 2008 -
National Audit Office report on NPfIT - 4 years late but feasible
16 May 2008
A system upgrade means that this blog will be unavailable tomorrow (Saturday 17 May 2008) from 9am to around noon.
These are excerpts from today's report [16 May 2008] by the National Audit Office on the NHS's National Programme for I.T Much has been published by Connecting for Health on the achievements so far ...
We interviewed Angela Hands and Laura Brackwell who are among the co-authors of a report by the National Audit Office on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] Angela Hands said: "The ...
The Department of Health in its reaction to a report by the National Audit Office on the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] gave no hint it would do anything differently if it were to launch the ...
Plans for the NHS's national IT scheme are feasible - but the main software is running four years behind, and may not be fully rolled out until 2015, according to a report published today [16 May ...