Public Sector IT
Recent Posts
-
Tory manifesto: what about the promise to publish Gateway reviews?
14 Apr 2010 -
Is the NPfIT in London now officially in tatters?
09 Apr 2010 -
New NHS BT deal in London needs close scrutiny
07 Apr 2010
On the "Make IT Better" website, which is run by the Conservative Party, is a promise to publish gateway reviews "when they are produced, and allow the public to scrutinise the value and progress ...
Ruth Carnall, the Chief Executive of NHS London, has told all London NHS Chief Executives that a cut of more than £100m in funding for BT's NPfIT contract means that "it will no longer be possible ...
John Cruickshank, a specialist with a long track record working in health IT, writes for 2020health, which describes itself as a centre-right web-based think-tank for health and ...
-
Congrats to Bristol City Council
06 Apr 2010 -
MP questions NHS CIO on BT, CSC, Lorenzo and Cerner
24 Mar 2010 -
Will health IT programme in US follow the NPfIT?
24 Mar 2010 -
CfH responds to "NPfIT close to imploding" claim
23 Mar 2010 -
Summary Care Records: the truth or nothing like it?
23 Mar 2010 -
Do new rules on use of Police National Database go far enough?
17 Mar 2010 -
Catering staff given access to electronic health records
17 Mar 2010
Bristol City Council is making available Google Analytics statistics on the use of its website. This is the sort of openness which makes Bristol a local authority exemplar: On the Google Analytics ...
MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has followed the NPfIT more closely than any other MP, yesterday sent a list of questions to Christine Connelly, the Department of ...
Health Care Renewal predicts that the National Program for Healthcare IT in the US is likely, in 2015, to resemble the National Programme for IT in the NHS in 2010.
The Department of Health has responded to as long article in The Guardian saying that the NPfIT is close to imploding. A spokesperson said:"We are continuing to work with the NHS at local level to ...
Richard Veryard has written a response to our report on inaccuracies and ommisions in the Summary Care Records database. He writes:"What's wrong with the single version of truth." Researchers at ...
The National Policing Improvement Agency today publishes a code which governs the use of a new intelligence system that, in effect, implements some of the main recommendations of the Bichard ...
The Irish Independent says that catering staff were able to access confidential patient information held on a £54m health service record system which is being rolled out across Ireland.The ...
-
Too many destructive vested interests in Govt IT?
12 Mar 2010 -
Conservatives move towards a Freedom of Data Act?
11 Mar 2010 -
Could Agile help solve the government's IT problems?
10 Mar 2010 -
BMA and CfH argue it out over NPfIT Summary Care Records
10 Mar 2010 -
Government IT should be "part of the election debate"
09 Mar 2010
In response to the article on this blog by Rob Bowley, on whether Agile can help solve Government IT problems, Matt writes:"Not if what I've seen of 'agile' approaches in government IT is anything ...
Today the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data', says Stephen Shakespeare who is chairman of the Network for the ...
Computer Weekly published today a call by the British Medical Association to halt what it calls a rushed roll-out of an imperfect Care Records Service. Responding to the article, Rob Bowley has ...
Would Summary Care Records have saved the life of Penny Campbell?[Comments 5 and 6 after this article correct some of the impressions I have given. The SCR is equipped to take GP notes] It's rare ...
David Chassels is a former Director of 3i Corporate Finance in Scotland, and a former partner at BDO. He's now CEO of software house Procession, based at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He writes to me ...