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Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News After five years in charge of the biggest IT project in the world, NHS IT director-general Richard Granger has announced he is to step down later this year. While Granger's hard-headed and no-nonsense approach meant tough new contracts for...
[June 19, 2007, 9:36]
Top 10 Richard Granger quotes
News NHS IT director general Richard Granger announced he is to quit the post later this year after five years in charge of the world's biggest civilian IT project — the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. Always outspoken and usually aiming his often...
[June 19, 2007, 11:16]
Academics meeting Granger to discuss NHS IT
News The NHS IT director general Richard Granger has invited a group of dissident technology academics to a meeting on Thursday where he will reiterate his case for pressing forward with the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
[April 20, 2006, 11:15]
NHS IT chief resigns after brief tenure
News Swindells only took the role at the end of January, following the resignation of Richard Granger as chief executive of Connecting for Health (CfH), the part of the NHS which runs NPfIT. NPfIT's former head, Granger, had negotiated notoriously tight...
[April 15, 2008, 13:26]
UK government trials desktop Linux
News Some suggested that NHS director general of IT, Richard Granger, was using Sun as a bargaining tool to force Microsoft down on licence costs. If all Granger does is beat down Microsoft on price then well done Richard Granger," he said.
[December 10, 2003, 13:05]
NHS hits million electronic prescriptions milestone
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen this week backed NHS IT director general Richard Granger, saying that critics of the project had got the scale of the problems out of proportion. He told The Sunday Times: "Richard Granger is doing a good job.
[May 17, 2006, 10:40]
Confusion surrounds Granger's NHS departure
News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS's £12.4bn flagship IT programme, and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. On announcing his decision to step down from his position running the National...
[January 16, 2008, 11:19]
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]
MPs savage NHS IT delays
News NHS CEO Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS director general of IT Richard Granger were grilled on the Connecting for Health programme by MPs during a heated Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting at the House of Commons this week.
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
Granger grassed by mum over IT failure
Blog Oh dear oh dear - turns out Richard Granger, head of the NHS's IT revamp (the largest civilian IT project in the world, lest you forget) failed his computer studies course at Bristol Uni. This could explain a lot.
[November 13, 2006, 13:04]
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]
DoH: Granger has stepped down from NHS
News The Department of Health has confirmed that Richard Granger has left his post as director general of the NHS National Programme for IT. This follows a period in which there has been uncertainty about Granger's continued role in the programme.
[February 8, 2008, 8:10]
NHS takes the open source pill
Talkback It confirms that Richard Granger has his eye firmly focused on the NHS big picture where savings and efficiency mated with leveraging the massive IT and other economies of scale in complex social environments will in time deliver phenomenal cost...
[December 16, 2005, 15:04]
New demands for NPfIT review
News The party's shadow health secretary Norman Lamb used a recent interview with soon-to-be departing NHS IT chief Richard Granger in CIO UK magazine as ammunition to push for an independent inquiry. Granger is calling the contractor to account but...
[July 12, 2007, 12:25]
NHS IT chief to step down
News Richard Granger will resign as chief executive of Connecting for Health (CfH), the part of the NHS which runs the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), "during the latter part of this year", CfH said on Saturday.
[June 18, 2007, 10:14]
NPfIT chief claims successes
News Speaking at a joint session of GC Expo, Smart Healthcare and Procurement Solutions on 12 June, 2007, Connecting for Health chief executive Richard Granger gave delegates an update on what has so far been achieved in terms of core system delivery.
[June 13, 2007, 15:42]
Changing specs put NHS IT project in danger
News The Sunday Times reported that Richard Granger, director general of IT for the NHS, has warned colleagues that there is a real danger that the whole project could be derailed by problems with a system allowing patients to book their own appointments.
[November 14, 2005, 9:30]
NHS IT project will face inquiry
News As reported last week, a group of UK computer academics met with Richard Granger, NHS IT director general, last Thursday to discuss their concerns about the National Programme for IT. We visited Granger and explained our concerns to him.
[April 24, 2006, 17:40]
NHS starts desktop Linux tests
News NHS director general of IT Richard Granger, said in a statement: "Our evaluation of the Java Desktop System holds the promise of allowing a greater share of NHS funding to flow directly towards improved levels of Patient Service.
[December 8, 2003, 9:20]
Transplanted head to review NHS IT
Blog Richard Granger's not gone, but there's a new NHS chief, David Nicholson, who wants to review the whole operation, according to the FT, who also have an interesting interview with Granger himself. Granger blames staff mistrust caused by having to...
[November 27, 2006, 13:56]
