NHS Connecting For Health - Management Team

Management Team

The NHS appointed a management team, responsible for the delivery of the system:

• Richard Granger - is the former Director General of IT for the NHS. He took up his post in October 2002, before which he was a partner at Deloitte Consulting, responsible for procurement and delivery of a number of large scale IT programmes, including the Congestion Charging Scheme for London. In October 2006, he was suggested by The Sunday Times to be the highest paid Civil Servant, on a basic of £280,000 per year, £100,000 per year more than former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Granger announced on 16 June 2007 that he would leave the agency "during the latter part" of 2007. Granger finally left the programme in February 2008. Granger's 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 whole scheme as "a gross waste of money".
• Gordon Hextall - Chief operating officer for NHS Connecting for Health. A career civil servant. On Richard Granger's departure, Hextall assumed overall responsibility for the programme.
• Richard Jeavons - Senior responsible owner for service implementation. Previous posts include being CEO of the West Yorkshire NHS strategic health authority.
• Harry Cayton - Chair of the Care Record Development Board.

As of 2009, overall leadership of CfH was described by the Public Accounts Committee as having been "uncertain" since the announcement that Richard Granger would be leaving the project.