Public Sector IT
March 2009
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C-Nomis £513m project - reality trumps our satire
13 Mar 2009 -
NAO report on C-Nomis - but it could have been on the NPfIT
12 Mar 2009 -
Failed £234m C-Nomis IT project - ministers not told full truth
12 Mar 2009
Editorial to be published in Computer Weekly next Tuesday Number one in the list of Computer Weekly's top tips for project managers is advice that's supposed to be humorous, even slightly cynical. ...
This could explain the lack of realism by Downing Street, by ministers and by some large suppliers at the outset of the NPfIT in 2002: "The desirability of the project's aims appears to have overly ...
This is a fuller version of a story on ComputerWeekly.com's main site. A £234m "C-Nomis" IT system for prisons failed in almost every possible way - but the project's main board and ministers were ...
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Budget? There wasn't one says new SRO who blew whistle on C-Nomis
12 Mar 2009 -
NPfIT doing a valuable job - Ex-logica Treasury minister
12 Mar 2009 -
NPfIT "proving a danger to patients" - Channel 4 film
12 Mar 2009 -
Dispatches film - a wasted opportunity?
12 Mar 2009 -
The NPfIT in 5 years?
10 Mar 2009 -
Some CfH contracts - from hotels to consultants
09 Mar 2009 -
C4 film tonight includes look at NPfIT
09 Mar 2009
Today's National Audit Office report on the C-Nomis project includes a comment from the project's replacement senior responsible owner (SRO) in 2007. "I knew we had problems when I asked for the ...
Stephen Timms, Treasury Secretary, speaking in a C4 Dispatches documentary this week on government waste: "Parts of the NHS IT system are already up and running and doing a very valuable job. I ...
"[The NPfIT] shows over-confidence in the myth of the superiority of IT and I think government suffers from this in many departments in many areas"- Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts ...
Colin Beveridge says that the Dispatches programme about wasted public spending was a wasted opportunity. "Why should I say that? Because Dispatches simply reeled off shocking example after ...
Anonymous Comment on the National Programme for IT on Silicom.com yesterday [9 March 2009]: "When the NAO have raked over the NPfIT remains in 5 years it will be no-one's fault, the NHS will be ...
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Department of Health has released details of NPfIT contracts which were entered into between November 2005 and November 2007. The spending on hotel ...
A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary tonight [9 March 2009] examines a rise in public sector spending, including increases in the estimated costs of the NPfIT. The NHS IT scheme was originally ...