it director general national programme
NHS names top tech tag team
News Martin Bellamy will lead NHS Connecting for Health as the new director of programme and system delivery and will look at how to improve partner relationships. The Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of... [07 Aug 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News The figure is two-thirds of the £851m the HMRC has spent so far on a programme to modernise tax collection, with savings of about £2.4bn achieved since the programme began, according to the report. HMRC expects the £2.7bn transformation programme... [21 Jul 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News Six years into the national NHS IT programme (NPfIT) the Lorenzo care records systems have still not gone live anywhere in the country, leaving health trusts in the North, Midlands and the East to rely on interim systems while they wait for... [18 Jun 2008]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News The Department of Health advertised for a CIO to "focus on the big picture of delivering our overall IT vision" and a director of the IT programme and system delivery to "focus on managing NHS Connecting for Health and enhancing partnerships with... [28 Apr 2008]
NHS CIO jumps ship
News Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, at the beginning of the year. The department is currently in the process of... [15 Apr 2008]
NHS online referrals hit six million
News Choose and Book is one of numerous tech projects under the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Richard Granger, the director general of NPfIT is due to step down later this year, leaving a significant legacy. [24 Jan 2008]
Confusion over Granger's NHS departure
News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS' £12.4bn flagship IT programme and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. The prospects for the IT director-general's role will not become clear until a review... [15 Jan 2008]
NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project
News Richard Granger, director-general of the NHS IT programme is due to formally step down from his role at the end of this year. The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England as part... [27 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) and Connecting for Health (CfH) in June and the timetable for his departure has now been confirmed. [05 Dec 2007]
Why must IT go green?
Comment CFOs are really focusing on operating costs," says Tony Rooke, UK environmental programme manager for services firm LogicaCMG. The electricity company EDF has warned it is no longer able to increase supply to data centres and requires formal... [03 Dec 2007]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News The UK's controversial national ID card programme has taken a big step closer to reality. When asked how confident the IPS is in sticking to these predicted costs, Bill Crothers, executive commercial director for the IPS, told silicon.com: "Yes, we... [09 Aug 2007]
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. The bigger context is that it is a 10-year... [18 Jun 2007]
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News Granger has always been quick to head off any criticism of the NHS IT programme by reeling off statistics about the number of systems delivered - at the latest count that includes 355,754 registered users of the Spine, more than 23 million... [18 Jun 2007]
Colin Cobain
CIO Profile As part of this global expansion, Tesco is now aiming to simplify the business by rolling out standardised business processes and IT systems across its international operations - a hugely ambitious programme, dubbed 'Tesco in a box'. [06 Jun 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 part of the £12.4bn NHS IT modernisation... [08 Feb 2007]
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