Richard Granger
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Richard Granger is the former director general of IT for the National Health Service who was in charge of the project of moving patient's records online. He currently works as a consultant.
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Career
After graduating from university, Granger started working for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture), before moving to Deloitte Consulting.[1] At Deloitte Consulting he led a consulting team, on behalf of Transport for London, implementing London's congestion charge infrastructure.[2]
In October 2002 he was appointed as director general of IT for the National Health Service, tasked with the job of the £5billion project to modernise their IT programme and get all patient's records online.[1] Granger appointed was criticised after his mother revealed that he had failed his computer science degree at the University of Bristol, eventually obtaining a degree in geology, despite this he was reportedly earning in excess of £285,000 a year and was the governments highest paid civil servant at the time.[3] In 2009, Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye magazine, revealed that Schillings, a law firm that represents GlaxoSmithKline, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange, was representing Granger.[4] Granger announced his plans to leave his role in Whitehall in June 2007, and left in January 2008.[5]
After leaving the public sector, Granger moved back to consultancy work as a partner at KPMG's global health practice.[6]
In January 2009 he notified ACOBA he would be becoming a consultant to various public and private sector clients, it was approved "subject to the conditions that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK Government or the NHS on behalf of any clients for whom he works as an independent consultant, and, for the same period, he should not seek or undertake any advisory work for the prime contractors of Connecting for Health ( BT Group plc, Cable and Wireless plc, Computer Sciences Corporation, Fujitsu Services Ltd, Atos Origin S.A.) and must seek further, separate approval to undertake work with any of its principal sub-contractors".[7]
In July 2009 ACOBA gave him "unconditional approval" to become a geological consultant for various overseas clients.[8]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Speakers: Granger WWW2006, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Mike Simons Road congestion charge chief to run NHS IT Computer Weekly, 6 September 2002, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Jo Revill Health service IT boss 'failed computer studies' The Observer, 12 November 2006, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Tony Collins Law firm for ex-NHS IT head Richard Granger issues warning Computer Weekly, 21 May 2009, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ NHS IT chief Richard Granger finally departs Computer World UK, 7 February 2008, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Richard Granger heads down to KPMG Computer World UK, 4 September 2008, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Tenth Report 2008-2009 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 25 November 2014
- ↑ Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 27 November 2014
