richard granger in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up Also moving on, though not exactly shuffling off this mortal coil, is Richard Granger, the NHS IT chief, who this week announced his plans to shed the poisoned chalice of modernising the health sector's IT. [22 Jun 2007]
Brampton Factor: Public sector woes
Comment The planned departure of Richard Granger points up the issue of big projects outlasting any of the people holding responsibility. As Gordon Brown heads for 10 Downing Street it is worth having another look at his old claim that IT expenditures... [20 Jun 2007]
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 Clinical Advisory Board, and Dr Anthony Nowlan... [27 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 health service. [30 May 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment That's NHS IT chief Richard Granger's response to the mounting criticism of the 10-year £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, which has been described as the largest civil IT project in the world. [26 May 2006]
Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?
Comment Richard Granger, charged with running the procurement and delivery of the £6.2bn Connecting for Health NHS IT modernisation project was rumoured to have been lured from his position as partner at Deloitte Consulting by a £250,000 salary that made... [20 Apr 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now… Sir Peter Gershon
Comment Let's just say that he set agendas to such an extent that few came to doubt his value (the post's annual salary was £145,000 - far less than Gershon could have earned elsewhere) and after our last poll he was widely tipped as the next government... [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: Government IT leaders on verge of new era
Leader NHS IT director general Richard Granger has just appointed a sidekick in Professor Aidan Halligan to help execute the delivery of the billions of pounds of IT contracts that have just been awarded. The likes of Richard Granger and John Yard have... [05 May 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment At the NHS, IT supremo Richard Granger has been strict with would-be suppliers for a series of large contracts, while the IR famously did what many thought impossible, last year dropping EDS for its Aspire project and switching to Cap Gemini Ernst... [02 Mar 2004]
Leader: Linux comes a long way - but let's be realistic
Leader An important meeting was also due to take place in London today with Bill Gates meeting the NHS director general of IT Richard Granger about just how much 500,000 Windows licences should cost - Granger of course has started trials of Sun's Java... [22 Jan 2004]
Leader: Wanted - government CIO
Leader Pinder claims to be looking for a "heavy hitter" and will no doubt be looking for someone with a strong reputation and track record in the private sector - as has been seen with NHS director general of IT, Richard Granger, and head of the Office... [15 Dec 2003]
Leader: Is Linux really heading for the desktop?
Leader And before you could say $25 for a Linux desktop, NHS director general of IT, Richard Granger, announced on Friday that the health service is going to pilot Sun's desktop Linux package as an alternative to Microsoft across a million desktops... [08 Dec 2003]
Are BT and C&W the NHS dreamteam - or the stuff of nightmares?
Comment Just over a month ago Richard Granger - the director of IT at the NHS or, put another way, the UK's highest paid civil servant at Europe's largest organisation - laid down a stark warning to suppliers: deliver, or else. [16 Jan 2003]
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