David Walker on outsourcing in the public sector - The Guardian 23rd April 2008

The bulk of Tribal Group's £272m a year turnover comes from the public sector, to which it offers consultancy, outsourcing, property, recruitment and IT services. In health, for example, it seeks "to work alongside the National Programme for IT" to track patient case notes and help hospital trusts manage data. It is no surprise then that Tribal's new head of health is the man who has been running the National Programme for IT in health, Matthew Swindells, the Department of Health's chief information officer and former special adviser to Patricia Hewitt, when she was the health secretary.

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