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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
February 2010
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We're not undermining Care Records says London's GP body
26 Feb 2010 -
The Child Support CS2 system's 400 "insoluble" problems
25 Feb 2010 -
Will action by London GPs enfeeble NPfIT SCR?
25 Feb 2010
Londonwide Local Medical Committees, the professional voice of the capital's 6,000 GPs, says it is not out to sabotage or undermine the roll-out of the NPfIT Summary Care Records.Its joint CEO Dr ...
Kable has an article on the "almost exponential rise" in the number of clerical cases being handled by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission which will eventually take over from the ...
In November the Department of Health announced [the NHS Connecting for Health name is being increasingly sidelined in announcements] the rollout in London of Summary Care Records.The DH ...
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One of the worst software project failures in memory?
25 Feb 2010 -
Home Office DNA mistake or dodgy civil service practice?
18 Feb 2010 -
BSkyB v EDS judgment not as significant as first thought?
18 Feb 2010 -
Is Dept of Health playing politics with patient records?
18 Feb 2010 -
CSC Chief Executive positive about NPfIT despite "political rhetoric"
16 Feb 2010 -
NHS supplier iSoft reports profits down - but non-NPfIT UK sales up
16 Feb 2010 -
Socitm identifies the big flaw in Government IT
16 Feb 2010
Last month BBC R4's Today programme and Computer Weekly quoted from an MoD memo that said there was a "positively dangerous" flaw in the Chinook Mk2's safety-critical "Fadec" software.Software code ...
Channel 4 News and Kable report that Home Office minister David Hanson submitted to MPs five case studies to justify retaining the DNA of people not convicted of any crime. But one of the case ...
Last month's 468-page judgment in the case of BSky versus EDS, (now HP) may have less of an impact on suppliers than first thought, say lawyers at Pinsent Masons. The judge, Sir Vivian Ramsey, ...
In areas of England where the Summary Care Record is underway, people are receiving leaflets on the benefits of the scheme. They are also offered an "opt out" of having some of their confidential ...
CSC CEO Mike Laphen is interviewed by Publictechnology.net. He's positive about the NPfIT and about the outcome of negotiations between the Department of Health, CSC and BT to cut costs from the ...
Australia-based iSoft, a major supplier to the NHS IT scheme, has reported mixed results for the half-year to 31 December 2009 including net profits down 53%. Turnover was $239m compared with $275m ...
Government CIOs can bring about only limited organisational change - and that may be the biggest single weakness in their job descriptions.It's a subject touched on in an excellent policy briefing ...
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Met police disciplines 27 and MoJ sacks 4 for misusing social networks
- Nemertes Research 15 Feb 2010 -
One reason Health minister is secretive over paid-for Google ads?
12 Feb 2010 -
Fujitsu settlement of NPfIT dispute unlikely in next year, says Cerner
10 Feb 2010 -
A remarkable story - one reason State spending is so high?
- Nemertes Research 10 Feb 2010 -
Removed for telling the truth?
10 Feb 2010
In 18 months up to November 2009, the Metropolitan Police Service disciplined 27 police officers for misusing social networking sites. The disclosure was made in answer to a Freedom of Information ...
Three years ago, the then NPfIT minister Caroline Flint condemned a PR company which had placed pay-per-click keyword adverts with Google. The PR company was working for NHS Connecting for Health ...
Techmarketview quotes NPfIT supplier Cerner, a subcontractor to BT, as being disappointed with the performance of its global business in 2009. Cerner, with its "Millennium" system, is one of two ...
Phil Pavitt, CIO at HM Revenue and Customs, has been, as one commentator put it, courageously honest. His disclosure that there is an unofficial club of high-spenders in Government who exercise ...
Arras People has published the results of an annual survey it commissioned from Benchpoint.com on the project management market. One of the findings, based on the comments of respondents, is that ...