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Trust spends £16.6m on consultants for Cerner EPR
By Tony Collins Reading-based Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust says in an FOI response that its spending on “computer consultants since the inception of the EPR system is £16.6m”. The Trust’s total...
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Has 2 decades of outsourcing cut costs at HMRC?
By Tony Collins If HMRC’s experience is anything to go by, outsourcing can, in the long-term, at least triple an organisation’s IT costs. When Inland Revenue contracted out its 2,000-strong IT...
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Why does truth on Universal Credit emerge only now?
By Tony Collins For nearly a year the Department for Work and Pensions, its ministers and senior officials, have told Parliament that Universal Credit IT is on track and on budget. Together with DWP...
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IT suppliers out of control of DWP on Universal Credit?
By Tony Collins The Department for Work and Pensions is investigating with consultants PwC whether poor financial controls on payments to IT suppliers have “materialised into cash that should not have...
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Does outsourcing make corruption more likely?
By Tony Collins Few journalists want to write about corruption in local government unless they have specific evidence from a court case. Which helps to explain why a well-researched report on the...
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Who polices police IT reports?
By Tony Collins The police, and civil and public servants in central government, the NHS and local authorities criticise journalists for biased reporting – taking selected facts out of context. They’re...
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More IT-based megaprojects derail amid claims all is well
By Tony Collins If one thing unites all failing IT-based megaprojects in the public sector it is the defensive shield of denial that suppliers and their clients hold up when confronted by bad news. It...
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A great speech in praise of the Public Accounts Committee
By Tony Collins Margaret Hodge spoke incisively this week about her five years as chairman of the 160 year-old Public Accounts Committee. It’s assumed that civil servants answer to ministers who are...
View ArticleIs Barnet Council up to the job of managing its suppliers – including Capita?
By Tony Collins Tonight (27 July 2017) Barnet Council’s audit committee meets to discuss the interim year-end findings of BDO, its external auditor. BDO identifies a “significant risk” in relation to...
View Article50 more lawyers are hired over the Post Office IT scandal: not a great way to...
By Tony Collins In a settlement statement last December, the Post Office seemed to mark an end to a long dispute with sub-postmasters over its Horizon branch accounting system. More than 550...
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