Richard Granger

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Richard Granger (born c.1965) is a British management consultant and former UK civil servant who was Director General for 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] Granger was recognised with a number of awards for his work in the NHS. These included an honorary doctorate in Public Health from Cass Business School, London,[11] Chartered IT Professional status and advancement to Fellowship of the British Computer Society.[12] Granger was a member of the Advisory Panel for the production of the ITGI's COBIT 4.1 IT Governance Guide.[13] On 26 April 2006 Granger was featured extensively in the BBC Programme 'Modern Brunels' regarding the Public Health benefits of more accessible information in the Health sector.[14] Many spoke highly of Granger following his announcement that he intended to return to the private sector, whilst others were critical of his management of the project.[15]

KPMG[]

After departing the NHS he joined KPMG as a partner[16] in 2008.

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. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. 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. ^ https://www.city.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates/honorary-graduates-a-z
  12. ^ "BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT | BCS". bcs.org.
  13. ^ "COBIT | Control Objectives for Information Technologies". ISACA.
  14. ^ "BBC - Radio 4 - Britain's Modern Brunels". bbc.co.uk.
  15. ^ Cross, Adrian O'Dowd and Michael (2007). "Richard Granger resigns as chief executive of Connecting for Health". BMJ. 334 (7607): 1290–1291. doi:10.1136/bmj.39251.605475.db. PMC 1895653.
  16. ^ "KPMG confirm appointment of Richard Granger, ex-NHS CIO". cio.co.uk. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2011.


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