Swindells to urge NHS IT pros to play part
The departing Department of Health CIO Matthew Swindells is expected to use his keynote speech at Healthcare Computing today to call on IT professionals to ‘play their part’ to help deliver the change underway in the NHS. Swindells is the keynote for the HC2008 conference on Monday, 21 April, where he will call for greater IT involvement […]
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Wanted: someone to lead on NHS IT
It might be one of the biggest civil IT projects on the planet, but the Department of Health appears to be having problems finding someone willing to lead it.
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Swindells quits DH ahead of review publication
The Department of Health’s interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department to take up a position with consultancy firm Tribal. The news comes ahead of publication of the Swindells review of NHS Informatics, which was expected to contain criticism of the overall strategic management of information in the NHS. A former […]
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Richard Jeavons to leave Connecting for Health
Richard Jeavons, Connecting for Health’s head of service implementation is to leave the agency before it implements its key detailed electronic record systems. Two weeks ago at a DH press conference Jeavons said detailed electronic patient record systems would after repeated delays begin to be deployed by the summer. Jeavons, a highly experienced NHS […]
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Praise for departed head of CfH
With the news of Richard Granger’s departure as head of Connecting for Health, a number of the key individuals he has worked with offered their praise. The DH made clear that it will not replace him directly but with a DH CIO and CfH director of programme and systems delivery: “Matthew Swindells will act as […]
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Granger era ends as DG leaves CfH
Richard Granger has left NHS Connecting for Health, the NHS IT agency responsible for the £12.4bn NHS IT programme, he has led for the past five years.
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2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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Unclear whether Granger will be replaced
The Department of Health has rejected strong rumours that one of its senior policy advisers, Matthew Swindells, has been appointed interim chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, replacing Richard Granger. In a statement to E-Health Insider the department that suggests Granger may not be replaced and that following review of NHS IT now underway, the current Connecting for […]
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