Health written question – answered at on 28 February 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and (e) current estimated cost is for each information technology project being undertaken by his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement.
The information technology (IT) projects currently being undertaken by the Department, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency are shown in the following table.
Name of project | Start date of project | Original planned completion date of project | Current expected completion date of project | Planned cost of project (£000) | Current estimated cost of project (£000) |
NHS Reference Costs 2008 | March 2007 | December 2008 | December 2008 | 1,154 | 1,227 |
Delphi - DH intranet enhancement | June 2006 | July 2007 | (1)On hold | 399 | 357 |
Management of electronic documents system enhancement | September 2007 | July 2008 | July 2008 | 250 | 250 |
Medical benefits system replacement | January 2007 | December 2007 | (2)March 2008 | 680 | 705 |
SHOWA -integration of DH human resource and finance systems | January 2007 | April 2008 | April 2008 | 10,516 | 10,516 |
Central alert system | February 2008 | July 2008 | July 2008 | 432 | 432 |
Advisory Committee for clinical excellence awards | April 2007 | February 2008 | February 2008 | 700 | 706 |
Enterprise Architecture -upgrade of DH application infrastructure | June 2007 | February 2008 | March 2008 | 2.159 | 2.159 |
Mobile working programme phase 1 | January 2007 | March 2008 | March 2008 | 560 | 560 |
Lotus notes 7 Upgrade - DH email system | October 2006 | October 2007 | February 2008 | 1,960 | (3)2,125 |
Pharmacy replacement | September 2008 | November 2008 | November 2008 | 150 | 150 |
NHS car leasing | December 2008 | July 2008 | July 2008 | 100 | (4)120 |
HR Enterprise Business Model | January 2008 | April 2008 | April 2008 | 143 | 143 |
Sentinel PV enhancements | July 2007 | March 2008 | March 2008 | 336 | 336 |
Sentinel PV data remediation | July 2007 | March 2008 | March 2008 | 728 | 728 |
(1) The Delphi project is on hold pending completion of work on the Departmental IT infrastructure. Three out of four project modules have been completed. (2) The Medical Benefits project is three months behind schedule and £25,000 over budget because of underestimation of supplier costs and unexpected technical complexities. (3) Lotus Notes upgrade budget overspend and delay in implementation caused by unexpected technical issues. (4) The NHS Car Leasing project is £20,000 over budget because the original planned cost was an estimate made for budgetary costs before the procurement exercise was complete. This has now been concluded and the confirmed development cost of the project is £120,000. |
The IT projects currently being undertaken by Connecting for Health are shown as follows:
Connecting for health( 1) | ||
Programme area | Contractor | Lifetime contract value (£ million) |
Spine | BT | 620 |
N3 broadband network | BT | 530 |
Choose and Book core contract | Atos Origin(SchlumbergerSema) | 64.5 |
London Local Service Provider (LSP) | BT CCA | 996 |
North East LSP | Accenture | 1,099 |
North West/West Midlands LSP | CSC | 973 |
Eastern LSP | Accenture | 934 |
Southern LSP | Fujitsu | 986 |
Total | — | 6,202.5 |
(1 )There is no single national start or completion date for the national programme for information technology as a whole, or for its individual systems and services. The aim is to achieve substantial integration of health and social care information systems in England under the national programme by 2010. Clearly systems will need to be upgraded in the light of new technology and new national health service requirements beyond that date. The approach, in line with best practice, is to implement new services incrementally, avoiding a 'big bang' approach, and providing increasingly richer functionality over time. The value of the original contracts let in 2003-04 for the core components of the national programme amounts to £6.2 billions over ten years, and this has not increased. |
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