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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
November 2009
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Top 5 causes of IT project failures - an insurer's view
30 Nov 2009 -
Minister attacks IT used to risk-assess criminals
30 Nov 2009 -
Claim of censorship over Cerner system
30 Nov 2009
On 24 November 2009, insurer Hiscox and Computer Weekly held a round-table in London on the impact of project failure on UK IT consultants. The delegates discussed the top five causes of IT project ...
[A shorter version of this article will be on the homepage of ComputerWeekly.com] A Justice minister has taken the rare step of criticising a front-line system in her own department. The "Oasys" ...
The Sydney Morning Herald and ZDNet in Australia report that the University of Sydney removed from its website - temporarily - a negative essay about a Cerner system which had been installed at ...
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Government plans for US-style IT openness - by 2020
27 Nov 2009 -
DH "truth" over NPfIT costs
26 Nov 2009 -
NPfIT Lorenzo pioneers at NHS Bury - grappling with issues
25 Nov 2009 -
Four IT project certainties - whatever the government
20 Nov 2009 -
Comments of patient "victims" of smartcard security breach
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NPfIT politics and the NHS smartcard security breach
16 Nov 2009 -
Ex-NHS CIO is new head of BCS's Health Informatics Forum
16 Nov 2009
A government IT strategy to be launched next month promises more transparency on major projects, according to a draft copy seen by UKauthority.com. "By 2020, we will follow the lead of the Office ...
Smarthealthcare reports that an "argument has broken out over the TaxPayers' Alliance claim that the NHS National Programme for IT has greatly exceeded its budget".The Alliance said that the ...
NHS Bury and its NPfIT local service provider CSC deserve some credit for going live with the Lorenzo release 1.9 electronic patient records system after months of preparation. It was the first ...
The Taxpayers' Alliance claims that IT projects have contributed about £11bn to a total overspend of £19bn on government projects.Will it be any different under the Tories? One answer is that there ...
Patients who received a letter from NHS Hull saying that their medical records had been viewed without authorisation by a former employees have left comments on their local news media's ...
It's interesting that NHS Hull promptly answered all my questions about the breach of smartcard security until I mentioned the use by the trust of NPfIT systems. Then all went quiet. It may be ...
Matthew Swindells, who led a Whitehall review of NHS informatics, is the new head of the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Forum. He is managing director for health at consultancy ...
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Police investigate NHS smartcard security breach as SCR launches in London
16 Nov 2009 -
NPfIT minister reveals Lorenzo costs and payments to BT and CSC
12 Nov 2009 -
What MPs said about State IT projects in 1984
12 Nov 2009 -
Council to re-use old IT - a social inclusion exemplar
11 Nov 2009 -
500k fines for data protection breaches - but what about Govt breaches?
11 Nov 2009
[Summary of article on ComputerWeekly.com homepage]:An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromised the ...
Mike O'Brien, the minister in charge of the NPfIT NHS IT scheme, has replied to questions put by Conservative MP Richard Bacon who sits on the Public Accounts Committee. These are his questions and ...
The collective memory of some departments is short. Few keep records of IT failures that pre-date the general election of 1997. So officials at the Department for Work and Pensions say they cannot ...
A council has ended a contract for the disposal of its used computers and plans to make the machines available to local residents, particularly the disadvantaged.Shouldn't all organisations/IT ...
The Ministry of Justice has begun a consultation on giving the Information Commissioner's Office the power to levy penalties of up to £500,000 for the most serious breaches of the Data Protection ...