Richard Granger

Richard Granger is a British management consultant and former UK civil servant responsible for the NHS's information technology project.

Early career

He attended Bristol University and initially studied computer sciences but obtained a 2:2 degree in Geology.^[1]

Granger has worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and in the oil industry.^[2] 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.^[3]

NHS

In 2002 Granger was appointed Director General of Information at the National Health Service,^[4] with responsibility for the NHS IT centralisation scheme, NPfIT, later rebadged as NHS Connecting for Health or CfH.^[5][6][7] He announced his resignation in June 2007, saying that he planned to return to the private sector.^[8][9] He transitioned out of the role^[10] and left CfH in February 2008.^[11]

KPMG

After departing the NHS he joined KPMG as a partner^[12] in 2008. By then Accenture and Fujitsu had left the programme,^[13] Computer Science Corporation remained as the last locality service provider, with BT providing networking and other services. The main contractors difficulties had been accentuated by the investigation of iSoft.^[14]

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