Richard Granger

Richard Granger (born c.1964) is a British management consultant and former UK civil servant was responsible part of the NHS's information technology project, Connecting for Health

Early career


Granger worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and in the oil industry.[1] After Andersen he became a partner at Deloitte Consulting. At Deloitte he was responsible for procurement and delivery of a number of large scale IT programmes, including the Congestion Charging Scheme for London.[2]

NHS

In 2002 Granger was appointed Director General of Information at the National Health Service,[3] with responsibility for the NHS IT centralisation scheme, NPfIT (National Programme for IT), later rebadged as NHS Connecting for Health or CfH.[4][5][6] He announced his resignation in June 2007, saying that he planned to return to the private sector.[7][8] He transitioned out of the role[9] and left CfH in February 2008.[10]

KPMG

After departing the NHS he joined KPMG as a partner[11] in 2008. By then Accenture and Fujitsu had left the programme,[12] Computer Sciences Corporation remained as the last locality service provider, with BT providing networking and other services. The main contractor's difficulties had been accentuated by the investigation of iSoft.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Speakers - Richard Granger". 15th International World Wide Web Conference - 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Simons, Mike (6 September 2002). "Road congestion charge chief to run NHS IT". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "New Director General of NHS IT Appointed". ehealth Insider. 5 September 2002. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Information Technology (NHS)". Richard Bacon (politician)(MP).org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "NHS IT system condemned". computerweekly.com/blogs. 18 May 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems". National Audit Office. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  7. ↑ "Boss of troubled £12bn NHS computer project quits". The Sunday Times. 17 June 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  8. ↑ "Richard Granger resigns as chief executive of Connecting for Health". British Medical Journal. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  9. ↑ "Granger to leave in transition by end of 2007". ehealth Insider. 16 June 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  10. ↑ "Granger era ends as DG leaves CfH". ehealth Insider. 7 February 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "KPMG confirm appointment of Richard Granger, ex-NHS CIO". cio.co.uk. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "Accenture quits £2bn NHS contracts". Financial Times.com. 28 September 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  13. ↑ "iSoft was central to Accenture's NHS pull-out". ZDNet. 28 September 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2011.


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