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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
October 2009
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NPfIT Lorenzo - £57,500 per user so far
30 Oct 2009 -
Minister renews faith in Cerner and Lorenzo - but "challenges remain"
29 Oct 2009 -
NPfIT Lorenzo - is the cost per user frightening?
29 Oct 2009
The NPfIT minister Mike O'Brien revealed in a Parliamentary reply yesterday that there are 174 regular users of the Lorenzo 1 system at five NHS trusts. The Lorenzo system is supplied by services ...
Junior Treasury minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry, the Exchequer Secretary, has affirmed her Government's faith in iSoft's Lorenzo and the Cerner Millennium software, though she added that "challenges ...
MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, is, any day now, expecting answers to his Parliamentary questions on the number of Lorenzo users at five "early" adopter trusts.He asked ...
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Labour MP: blacklist some IT suppliers
28 Oct 2009 -
Reports of the NAO on risky IT projects - has a precedent been set?
22 Oct 2009 -
Government 2010 today
22 Oct 2009 -
National Audit Office hits brick wall over Defra agency's IT failure
21 Oct 2009 -
£350m Rural Payments Agency IT: pouring money into a digital landfill?
19 Oct 2009 -
The NAO's most serious criticism of any IT-based project?
15 Oct 2009 -
David Cameron questions the point of the NPfIT
08 Oct 2009
Labour MP Austin Mitchell has many times attended a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee to hear civil servants try and defend their handling of an IT-based change programme which is late, ...
Since 1986 reports of the National Audit Office have been subject to a "clearance process" in which their factual content is agreed with departments and agencies before publication.It's a good ...
On a panel I'm chairing today on making the web more inclusive are Stephen Hilton of Bristol City Council, John Shewell of Brighton and Hove City Council and Anthony Zacharzewski of the Democratic ...
[This editorial is in the hard copy of Computer Weekly this week]Hours after the National Audit Office published an unusually critical report - its third - on the IT-based Single Payment Scheme, ...
Software company Erudine points out, in the wake of the report of the NAO's report on the cumbersome and inflexible £350m systems at the Rural Payments Agency, that government needs to change its ...
At a press conference yesterday, senior officials at the National Audit Office made some of the most serious criticisms anyone at the NAO has made about an IT-based programme.Philip Gibby, a ...
From David Cameron's speech this afternoon at the Conservative Party conference: "Ten years on from a government that said '24 hours to save the NHS', billions spent and yet morale is so low, some ...
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BT heckled at its own open source conference
07 Oct 2009 -
Change of plan on ID Cards biometrics database?
07 Oct 2009 -
Barts and the dangers of NPfIT over-optimism
06 Oct 2009 -
Tories promise a new era of openness on IT projects
05 Oct 2009 -
Packed Cerner health conference in Kansas City
05 Oct 2009
Interesting column on BT, Foss (free and open source software) and the NPfIT
The Identity and Passport Service may scrap plans to use the Customer Information System as the database for ID Cards biometrics.The CIS is run by the Department for Work and Pensions and is the ...
Analysis on the problems at Barts and The London, and the implications for the Cerner Millennium rollout - ComputerWeekly.com
The Conservatives at their annual conference say they want a new era of openness which will put into the public domain the information armchair auditors would need to "crawl over" big IT and other ...
Cerner's 2009 healthcare conference at Kansas City has standing (sitting on the floor) room only http://twitpic.com/kd2t4It can be followed on twitter:https://twitter.com/cernerchc