Richard Granger

Richard Granger (born c.1964) is a British management consultant and former UK civil servant responsible for the NHS's information technology project, Connecting for Health, believed by some to have been the "one of the largest-scale failures" in the history of IT.

Early career

He attended Bristol University and initially studied computer sciences but, having failed the course, went on to obtain a 2:2 degree in Geology.

Granger worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and in the oil industry. 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.

NHS

In 2002 Granger was appointed Director General of Information at the National Health Service, with responsibility for the NHS IT centralisation scheme, NPfIT (National Programme for IT), later rebadged as NHS Connecting for Health or CfH. He announced his resignation in June 2007, saying that he planned to return to the private sector. He transitioned out of the role and left CfH in February 2008.

KPMG

After departing the NHS he joined KPMG as a partner in 2008. By then Accenture and Fujitsu had left the programme, Computer Sciences Corporation remained as the last locality service provider, with BT providing networking and other services. The main contractor's difficulties had been accentuated by the investigation of iSoft.