Richard Granger (born c.1965) is a British

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and former UK civil servant who was Director General for the

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's information technology project, Connecting for Health.

Early career

Granger worked for Andersen Consulting (now

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) and in the oil industry. After Andersen he became a partner at

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. At Deloitte he was responsible for procurement and delivery of a number of large scale IT programmes, including the Congestion Charging Scheme for London.

NHS

In 2002 Granger was appointed Director General of Information at the

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, with responsibility for the NHS IT centralisation scheme, NPfIT (National Programme for IT), later rebadged as

NHS Connecting for Health The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health (United Kingdom), Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. It was part of the Department of Healt ...

or CfH. 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, Chartered IT Professional status and advancement to Fellowship of the British Computer Society. Granger was a member of the Advisory Panel for the production of the ITGI's COBIT 4.1 IT Governance Guide. 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. In October 2006, he was suggested by ''

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'' to be the highest paid civil servant, on a basic of £280,000 per year, £100,000 per year more than then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Granger announced on 16 June 2007 that he would leave the agency "during the latter part" of 2007. He transitioned out of the role and left CfH in February 2008. His credentials were questioned by his own mother, a campaigner for the preservation of local health services in her area, who expressed her amazement at his appointment, criticising the

scheme as "a gross waste of money". The scheme was later described as "one of the worst and most expensive contracting fiascos in the history of the public sector"

KPMG

After departing the NHS he joined

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as a partner in 2008.

References

Living people Accenture people Alumni of the University of Bristol British businesspeople British management consultants Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-business-bio-1960s-stub