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NHS business
A consortium of 12 Welsh trusts has awarded a £13. 5m contract to McKesson HBOC and Oracle to run all their financial applications for eight years. As well as replacing legacy systems, the deal will simplify reporting to the Welsh Assembly. McKesson HBOC will run existing payroll systems for 17 ...
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spotlight on. . . e-procurement
Companies are vying with each other to offer eprocurement solutions to the NHS, ahead of the publication of a national e-procurement strategy.
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wobbly at the top
Online access to government services - from paying taxes and bills to renewing library books - has become the norm in some countries. Steve Mathieson asks why progress in the UK is so slow and looks at the implications for e-citizens
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e-governing around the world: Singapore
The government's internal management consultancy, the Performance and Innovation Unit (www. cabinet-office. gov. uk/innovation), last autumn looked at other countries'attempts at e-government, and found some doing a lot better than the UK.
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e-governing around the world: Australia
Australia gives a good idea of what is possible. As with the UK, it accepts tax returns online and most are submitted this way via people's accountants. Australia has well-developed government sites, and an interesting and fairly successful public-private partnership site, at www. maxi. com. au, through which state transactions ...
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King's Fund Millennium Awards
Ife Piankhi from the Black Angels Mothership Community Project and her daughter Kha'mara join Tony Banks MP, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, chief executive of the King's Fund (right), and Isabella Kpobie from the King's Fund (left) at the launch of the King's Fund Millennium Awards, which total £1. 3m and will ...
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Women quitting unequal NHS
Education on gender equality should be included in NHS staff contracts and performance review, deputy ombudsman Hilary Scott said last week.
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Scots nurse review wants skills merger
The way primary care is delivered by community nurses in Scotland is set to change dramatically with publication of a review by the chief nursing officer calling for 'a radical modernisation of the public health nursing workforce'.
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Food guru backs waiters on the wards
Waiters and waitresses should serve food to patients in all hospitals, restaurant critic and hospital food guru Loyd Grossman has said following an initiative being piloted in Nottingham.
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RCN U-turn may fail to placate staff
The Royal College of Nursing's council has agreed to reinstate its original pay formula for staff, but by invoking a clause on affordability of pay awards it looks unlikely to avoid the threat of industrial action.
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RCN general secretary
Beverly Malone, previously a deputy assistant health secretary in the US, has accepted the post of RCN general secretary. She will start work next month and will take over from Christine Hancock in June.
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Short cuts
New frameworks will cover children and neurology Plans to produce two new national service frameworks - one on children's services and one on long-term neurological conditions - have been released by health secretary Alan Milburn. The children's services framework, which will also incorporate maternity care, will be published in 2003 ...