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Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet In addition, outsourcing megadeals - contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver a range of services over multiple years - have also enjoyed something of a comeback recently, as shown by the likes of BT's £500m contract... [11 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News Recent megadeals have included BT's £500m contract with the NHS, IBM and CSC's £300m deals with the government's Identity and Passport Service, and a £685m deal for HP-EDS at insurance giant Aviva.... [14 Jul 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News The Care Records Service project is four years behind schedule and NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told they must speed up the roll out of key systems by November this year. The... [28 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) scheme currently has just two local suppliers, BT Global Services (BTGS) and CSC, and has been recently dogged by suggestions the former was looking to pull out of its involvement... [06 Apr 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News Difficulties with PAS rollouts have been compounded by the decision by Accenture and Fujitsu to walk away from the NPfIT, leaving only CSC and BT as the two main suppliers for the programme. Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head... [27 Jan 2009]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News A spokesman for CfH said: "Collectively, the early adopter trusts, strategic health authorities, NHS CfH and CSC recognise the need to achieve the necessary quality criteria for go-live and view this as... [10 Nov 2008]
NHS IT to benefit Southern England - at last
Comment After the contact termination, there has been speculation that BT or CSC (the prime contractor in the North of England) would take over the contract for the South. Those that love it (otherwise known as patients) think... [30 Oct 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News Fujitsu will continue to deliver the system in the south until it departs in November and health authorities are now in negotiations with Bath about whether it will use its own provider to implement the Millennium care records system or... [22 Jul 2008]
Fujitsu ditches £896m NHS IT contract
News BT or CSC is thought to be favourite to take over responsibility for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS in southern England but Fujitsu will continue to run the existing systems until its... [29 May 2008]
Health care records service delayed
News IT for the three regions of the programme is run by CSC, who will incur a late-delivery penalty as a result. The priority now is to finish developing and deploying care records systems that will help NHS... [16 May 2008]
NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
News The NHS has also confirmed that it is still renegotiating a contract worth about £3bn with CSC to deliver parts of the £12.7bn IT overhaul. The NHS has pledged to halt the further roll... [14 May 2008]
GPs to get greater tech choice
News The successful suppliers are: CSC Computer Sciences, Egton Medical Information Systems, Healthy Software, In Practice Systems, iSoft, Microtest, Seetec Business Technology Centre and Waveform Solutions. [31 Jul 2007]
David Burden
CIO Profile Burden's achievements include delivering a substantial reduction in IT costs through a major outsourcing deal with CSC Prism Alliance and the creation of a decentralised IT model. Burden is also on the UK... [06 Jun 2007]
DoH in £20m CSC outsourcing extension
News CSC also already holds three of the key lead service provider contracts for the NHS' £12.4bn national Connecting for Health IT project. The UK's Department of Health (DoH) has agreed a £20m extension to... [30 Mar 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News Accenture has completed the handover of the NHS IT systems it was running to CSC, following its decision to pull out of two big contracts that formed part of Connecting for Heath (CfH), the giant... [11 Jan 2007]
