Letter from Managing Director, Fujitsu
Services to the Chairman of the Committee
It has come to our attention that you have summoned
Andrew Rollerson to appear before you next Wednesday for him to
be questioned regarding recent reports of a presentation he made
concerning the NHS National Programme for IT.
Some of the facts reported about Mr Rollerson
have not been accurate and we would like you to be clear on the
facts of Mr Rollerson's employment with Fujitsu Services.
1. Mr Rollerson is employed by Fujitsu Services
as a Business Consultant specialising in Value Management and
Change Management.
2. Mr Rollerson was involved in the Fujitsu
bid for the NHS and played a role in the early stages of the project
post-contract.
3. In May 2006 he was appointed to a position
outside the Programme entitled, Practice Lead, New Healthcare
Consulting Business. In this role Andrew was looking for Consulting
Assignments outside the Fujitsu LSP Contract. He has not been,
as reported, responsible for Fujitsu's delivery of the Programme,
not is he a senior executive of the company.
4. He was not part of the operational management
team of the NHS Account, and therefore had only limited knowledge
of the conduct of the Programme, its commercial aspects and the
company's view on it.
5. Mr Rollerson was expressing his personal
views during his recent presentation and these views do not represent
the views of Fujitsu Services.
6. Fujitsu Services is proud to be part
of the industry team chosen to deliver the NHS National Programme
for IT. We are fully committed to delivering our contract for
the NPfIT Programme. We have already delivered a huge amount of
patient and clinician benefit through our successful deployment
of Picture Archiving and Radiology systems across the whole of
the South of England. Over 140,000,000 clinical images are already
stored on our database. We are now successfully deploying the
first release of the Cerner Millennium Care Records System and
already have the System live in 26 sites across 5 deployment families
and used by approximately 7,000 users.
We believe it is important that these facts
are brought to the attention of the Committee.
Peter Hutchinson
Managing Director
UK Public Sector
Fujitsu Services
5 March 2007
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