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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. Top 10 Richard... [18 Jun 2007]
In brief: NHS IT chief to leave, Facebook "fogies", Vodafone wireless price cuts
News Richard Granger is to leave his full-time post as chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health "during the latter part of this year", according to the agency. Granger said in a... [18 Jun 2007]
NHS claims IT success
News Speaking at a joint session of GC Expo, Smart Healthcare and Procurement Solutions on Tuesday, Connecting for Health chief executive Richard Granger gave delegates an update on what has so far been... [14 Jun 2007]
Home care moves into the 21st century
News Richard Granger, head of Connecting for Health - the DoH agency in charge of the NHS IT upgrade - said the National Programme for IT is not just about computers but about patients and supporting NHS... [23 May 2007]
NHS hits 18,000 broadband connections target
News Richard Granger, director general of the NHS Connecting for Health programme, said almost 97 per cent of GPs and more than a million NHS staff are now connected to N3. The N3 broadband backbone which is... [08 Feb 2007]
NHS to put healthcare tech in homes
News Richard Granger, NHS director general of IT, said this extension of health technology into the home - probably based at first on proprietary systems - would "free things up in terms of time and place"... [25 Jan 2007]
Watchdog to reprobe NHS IT
News Director general of NHS IT Richard Granger said at the time: "If this was easy it would have been done years ago. The public sector's spending watchdog is to launch another inquiry into the NHS'... [05 Sep 2006]
Vodafone IT chief is CIOs' CIO
News In the public sector, new UK government CIO John Suffolk was voted top CIO with 29 per cent of the vote, followed by Richard Granger, NHS director general of IT, with 21 per cent. Vodafone CIO Paul... [30 Jun 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader More interesting were the barbed exchanges between MPs, NHS IT director general Richard Granger and two of his now highly critical ex-colleagues, Professor Peter Hutton, who used to head the National... [27 Jun 2006]
MPs slam 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... [27 Jun 2006]
NHS IT spending will reach £12.4bn
News Director general of NHS IT Richard Granger added: "If this was easy it would have been done years ago. Spending on the giant NHS IT modernisation project is likely to reach £12.4bn by 2014, according to... [16 Jun 2006]
GPs get £1 a patient incentive to use NHS IT
News In an interview with silicon.com last month, NHS IT director general Richard Granger hit back at critics of the CfH programme and described it as a "work in progress". Granger is... [13 Jun 2006]
IT bosses aren't worth their high salaries - poll
News It also follows revelations that NHS IT director Richard Granger earns £280,000 per year, while Philip Clarke, global IT director at Tesco claimed a package worth £2.2m last year. IT chiefs are taking... [06 Jun 2006]
Leader: A tale of two IT chiefs - Tesco vs the NHS
Leader NHS IT director general Richard Granger picked up his £280,000 for overseeing an ambitious £7bn - £6.2bn if you take out the digital picture archiving project - national programme to modernise the UK's... [30 May 2006]
NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed
News NHS IT chief Richard Granger has earned more than £1m in the four years since his appointment as director general of the £7bn Connecting for Health project in 2002. Granger's salary,... [30 May 2006]
