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Top IT job at NHS split into 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.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[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. Find out what Richard Granger's legacy has been after...

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn

NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn

News It also lost its leader, Richard Granger, late last year. The £12.4bn national NHS IT project will save the health service £1.14bn by 2014, a government report claims. The first annual Benefits Statement published by the government estimates the...

Tags: nhs, government, connecting for health, programme

[13 Mar 2008]

NHS online referrals hit six million

News Richard Granger, the director general of NPfIT is due to step down later this year, leaving a significant legacy. The NHS online referral system, Choose and Book, has recently passed six million patient appointments made since its initial...

Tags: connecting for health, online, granger, npfit

[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. On announcing his decision to step down from his position running the National...

Tags: cfh, hospital, nhs, emergency services

[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...

Tags: nhs, pacs, reporting, health

[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.

Tags: nhs, richard granger, spokeswoman, health

[05 Dec 2007]

Are you a CIO 2.0?

News Kost added the only true government CIO 2.0 in Europe is the director general of IT for the NHS, Richard Granger. The role of the government CIO is evolving, becoming less about merely supporting organisations and more about driving business change...

Tags: government, granger, it director, gartner

[07 Nov 2007]

Surprise bidder makes a play for iSoft

News The late delivery of Lorenzo has been widely identified as a thorn in the side of the NHS' National Programme for IT (NPfIT), causing the departure of consulting giant Accenture from the project and quite possibly contributing to the decision of...

Tags: npfit, compugroup, iba, isoft

[23 Jul 2007]

How will IT fare under Gordon Brown?

News Earlier this month Richard Granger announced his intention to stand down as head of the NHS IT. How will public sector IT fare under the UK's new Prime Minister? IT chiefs and analysts predict some key differences between Gordon Brown and his...

Tags: prime minister, blair, tony blair, government

[28 Jun 2007]

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.

Tags: women in it, carphone warehouse, harry potter, phishing

[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...

Tags: gordon brown, tony blair, richard granger, nhs it

[20 Jun 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. Always outspoken and usually aiming his often...

Tags: nhs, richard granger

[18 Jun 2007]

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 Granger quotes Granger has always been quick to head off any criticism of the...

Tags: connecting for health, richard granger, nhs

[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 statement: "My decision should be seen in the context of the changing...

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[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 achieved in terms of core system delivery.

Tags: npfit, nhs

[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 staff to deliver the best possible patient care.

Tags: funding, department of health, nhs, healthcare

[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 part of the £12.4bn NHS IT modernisation...

Tags: nhs cfh, richard granger, nhs it, nhs

[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" within the NHS.

Tags: telehealth, nhs

[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' multi-billion pound computer overhaul.

Tags: nhs

[05 Sep 2006]

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