Public Sector IT
April 2009
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In defence of NPfIT's "owner" David Nicholson
08 Apr 2009 -
A genuine NHS IT improvement
08 Apr 2009 -
CSC likely to acquire about 350 passports IT staff
07 Apr 2009
David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS, has his critics but they'd be on unsafe ground if they accused him of lacking passion - or of false modesty. Normally, at any hearing of the Public ...
Congratulations to NCR Corporation and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London: they've introduced something apparently simple but important: a hospital kiosk where patients can ...
CSC has won a £385m 10-year contract to build new passport and ID systems, and take over about 350 IT staff who are working on various contracts at the Identity and Passport Service. Most of them ...
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Gateway reviews on ID Cards - one impressive, one not
07 Apr 2009 -
Proof that £13bn NPfIT was supposed to cost £5bn
06 Apr 2009 -
Whitehall learns it can't force IT on unwilling users
06 Apr 2009
My blogging colleague Philip Virgo has pointed out the differences in thoroughness between two gateway reviews on the ID Cards scheme. Last month the Office of Government Commerce published the two ...
Now that the central spend on the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] has officially exceeded £5bn - even without local and some other costs - Computer Weekly is publishing here for the first ...
We - and others including Robin Guenier - said in 2002 that ruthlessly centralised IT systems could not be foisted on NHS trusts which take their own decisions. But Downing Street and the ...