Monthly Archive for February, 2009

Departmental ICT expenditure

Lots of interesting numbers in the written answers to parliamentary questions.

The HMRC Aspire deal with Capgemini will end up being worth

London NHS shared services

Shared services (including SBS) are given a strong push by the NHS Chief Executive. London is also moving to a collaborative model for commissioning.

Outsourcing procurement

It looks like more and more organisations will outsource procurement as the downturn hits ever harder. IBM is looking at Unilever’s European indirect spend.

Connecting for Health still slow

As the NHS CEO travels to India to take a hands on role in the National Programme, some trusts are moving back to older, non-CfH systems and early adopters are seeing substantial cost implications (

Departmental ICT: 29 Jan 2009: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)

Departmental ICT: DFID. Much smaller projects here, but still interesting to see how they are split.