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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
January 2009
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London trust hit by virus had a failure of processes
28 Jan 2009 -
NHS Confederation: we need NPfIT cash but spent differently
27 Jan 2009 -
Report of public accounts MPs on NHS IT - main findings
27 Jan 2009
What Barts and The London NHS Trust called a "major incident" - the spread of the Mytob computer virus to a network of nearly 5,000 PCs - was entirely avoidable. An independent report on the ...
"There's a real hazard of doing [with the NPfIT] what we did with Concorde" - NHS Confederation John Humphrys, a presenter of BBC R4's "Today" programme, this morning interviewed Nigel Edwards, ...
Today's report of the Public Accounts Committee on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT says it is not yet providing value for money - though the project has existed for nearly seven years. The ...
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NPfIT risks heightened says chairman of public accounts MPs
27 Jan 2009 -
Today's report by MPs on NHS IT scheme
27 Jan 2009 -
NPfIT central contracts will never work - MP tells BBC
27 Jan 2009 -
Much frustration over NPfIT says BBC correspondent
27 Jan 2009 -
Post-it notes for passwords - an NHS option?
22 Jan 2009 -
A strong defence of NPfIT Choose and Book
22 Jan 2009 -
President of Royal College of Surgeons attacks Choose and Book
21 Jan 2009
Edward Leigh MP, Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, said in a statement on his committee's report on the NHS's National Programme for IT: "The risks to the successful delivery of the ...
Some of the coverage of today's report of the Public Accounts Committee on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] MPs question the future of £12bn NHS IT scheme - Computer Weekly Government IT ...
Richard Bacon, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, talked to BBC R4 Today presenter John Humphrys this morning about his committee's report on the National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. Earlier ...
Jane Dreaper, the BBC's Health correspondent, spoke about the report of the Public Accounts Committee on the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] on BBC R4's Today programme this morning. Today's ...
My colleague Philip Virgo who blogs for Computer Weekly and is Secretary-General of the Parliamentary and IT industry body Eurim, sent me a comment earlier this month which raises important ...
A strong defence of the Choose and Book system has been sent to me after yesterday's article on the IT Projects blog in which the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, John Black, attacked ...
John Black, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, says the Choose and Book system "purports to offer greater patient choice" but "has had the opposite effect". Black's comments will not make ...
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Interview with CEO of NPfIT "break-away" trust
21 Jan 2009 -
NPfIT contracts more than knee-high
16 Jan 2009 -
Ominous court ruling for users - supplier exclusion clauses upheld
16 Jan 2009 -
NPfIT officials threatened Foundation trust with penalty
15 Jan 2009 -
Foundation trust forfeits "free" Lorenzo PAS and buys its own
15 Jan 2009
Below is the result of my interview with Brian James, Chief Executive of Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, which is shortly to buy its main hospital e-record systems outside of the NHS's £12.7bn ...
Each NPfIT contract for the local service providers is nearly one metre high with the schedules and appendices. Clearly the national programme has been good for some (loggers) even if it hasn't ...
It's of course common for IT suppliers to have an exclusion clause in contracts to protect them from claims from users after a serious failure. The clause usually says that the supplier is not in ...
Health officials sought to discourage a foundation trust from buying systems outside the NHS IT scheme by threatening to charge for national software even if the trust bought an alternative ...
The Chief Executive of Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has explained why his board is to buy a patient record system on the open market without waiting for the "free" Lorenzo software which is due ...