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NHS IT Chief To Step Down
News The head of the controversial £12bn NHS IT modernisation project, the National Programme for IT, is to leave his post. Richard Granger will resign as chief executive of Connecting for Health (CfH), the part of the NHS which runs the National...
[June 18, 2007, 10:14]
NHS IT Timescale Questioned As ISoft CEO Resigns
News Much of the "negative speculation and comment" referred to by Whiston stems from iSoft’s sluggish progress in delivering on the NHS’s Connecting For Health programme. But insiders claim that the delivery targets agreed between iSoft and the NHS...
[June 15, 2006, 9:40]
NHS IT Delays Cost Accenture £260m
News The body in charge of the £6.2bn NHS IT project has called for "key personnel changes" at Accenture after the outsourcing company announced a $450m (£260m) loss on its health service contracts due to delays in hitting delivery deadlines.
[April 3, 2006, 9:30]
NHS IT Rollout 'needs Proper Evaluation'
News Poor evaluation of the IT services and infrastructure being rolled out across the NHS risks undermining support for Whitehall's unprecedented levels of spending on the programme, according to research published on Tuesday.
[July 27, 2004, 14:35]
NHS IT Chief Warns Against Local Budget Cuts
News The financial meltdown in some healthcare authorities across the country will not hit funding for the rollout of the £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, according to NHS IT director general Richard Granger.
[May 26, 2006, 9:50]
NHS IT Project Is Doing OK, Says Audit Office
News After months of speculation, the NHS and the director general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, have escaped censure from the National Audit Office (NAO) which published its report on the NHS National Programme for IT on Friday.
[June 16, 2006, 12:30]
NHS IT Initiative On Track, According To Director
News Director general of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, Richard Granger, was speaking at the Improvement and Development Agency e-champions conference in London on 28 September 2004. The person leading the digitisation of the NHS in England...
[September 30, 2004, 15:30]
NHS IT Project Costs Soar
News The NHS National Programme for IT will create an electronic booking system for patients, followed by an electronic patient record scheme. This will allow doctors to access a patient's records from anywhere within the NHS -- be it their local...
[October 12, 2004, 9:40]
NHS IT Report Was Watered Down
News A key report into the NHS's massive IT upgrade programme was watered down by the Government before publication, it has emerged. A warning that there are "insufficient trainers to train NHS staff", became a warning that a lack of knowledge could be...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
NHS IT Project Will Face Inquiry
News An independent inquiry will be held later this year into the government's multi-billion pound upgrade of the NHS IT systems, which has been widely criticised by experts. As reported last week, a group of UK computer academics met with Richard...
[April 24, 2006, 17:40]
NHS IT Loses Another Leading Light
News The departure of a leading official responsible for the NHS IT programme means the scheme has lost its second clinical chief in six months. Professor Aidan Halligan, the joint senior responsible owner for the £6bn NHS IT programme, is to leave his...
[September 23, 2004, 14:10]
NHS IT 'still On Budget', But Not At £6.2bn
News A government minister sparked controversy today when he was quoted as claiming that the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) was likely to cost more than twice its budgeted £6.2bn. In order to meet their costs, hospitals and other NHS facilities...
[May 30, 2006, 16:55]
NHS IT Leaving Doctors 'thoroughly Disillusioned'
News Slipping deadlines for new IT systems and the premature release of systems that are not fit for purpose has been deeply frustrating for NHS staff, leaving many doctors thoroughly disillusioned with the programme.
[May 19, 2008, 9:01]
NHS IT Debacle Causes An Irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If that is the NHS' view on 23 experts who are trying to aid...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
NHS IT Problems
Blog Only last week Lord Warner was claiming NHS patients would be able to opt out of the massive new NPfIT database, but today the Guardian reports this to be absolute nonsense. Now, as a former worker for the NHS, I well understand the need for the...
[November 1, 2006, 11:59]
NHS IT Chief Resigns After Brief Tenure
News The man in charge of NHS IT has stepped down after less than three months in the job. Effectively the largest civilian IT project in world history, NPfIT is a controversial and massive upgrade of NHS IT systems.
[April 15, 2008, 13:26]
NHS Top IT Job To Be Split In Two
News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post — filled by Richard Granger until January this year. The decision to double up the IT roles was taken as...
[April 29, 2008, 8:34]
NHS Dismisses Calls For IT Review
News A group of IT academics has failed in its latest request to instigate an independent review into the NHS's National Programme for IT. But the NHS's chief executive David Nicholson turned down the academics' latest challenge, after Thomas called for...
[February 6, 2007, 11:12]
NHS Dismisses Claim Of IT Security Glitch
News The Choose and Book project, part of the NHS National Programme for IT, has not been halted," said a National Programme spokesperson, who added that confidentiality and information security were top priorities.
[November 15, 2004, 13:00]
NHS IT Failures 'left Babies Unvaccinated'
News The NHS has defended Connecting for Health, its multi-billion pound IT upgrade, amid reports of problems that left thousands of babies at risk of infection. The Observer reported that as many as 3,000 children had not received important...
[February 27, 2006, 12:45]
