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Public Sector

Black and white photograph of a records clerk in a hospital archive between floor-to-ceiling shelves of paper patient files

Aug

The single patient record will run late. The Treasury priced that in two decades ago.

The Treasury has assumed government IT projects can overrun by 200% since 2003. Applied to the last comparable NHS programme, even that allowance wasn't pessimistic enough.

A council caseworker and a member of the public completing paperwork together across a desk

Jul

Council Mergers Save the Back Office. They Don’t Save the Service.

134 councils are merging into 38 unitary authorities on the strength of a 2009 case study. That study proved less than its headline savings figure suggests.

Systems engineer checking equipment beside racks in a government data centre

Jul

By Data and AI in Practice, Public Sector No Comments

The UK’s public sector AI problem was never the money

Government has committed billions to AI and hit 38 of 50 roadmap targets. Adoption is still stuck at pilot stage, and legacy systems aren't the reason most assume.

A person reviewing files among shelves of identical archive boxes

Jul

By Public Sector, Transformation and Delivery No Comments

The government’s project portfolio just improved. No project got better.

Whitehall cut its major projects portfolio from 213 schemes to 81 overnight. None of the projects that left got any easier to deliver.

Public Sector

The single patient record will run late. The Treasury priced that in two decades ago.

Council Mergers Save the Back Office. They Don’t Save the Service.

The UK’s public sector AI problem was never the money

The government’s project portfolio just improved. No project got better.

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