PROJECTS
The National Audit Office has warned health authorities and trusts to stick to new guidelines on major development projects if they’re not to fall into the same problems as a hugely over-spent project at Guy’s Hospital in London.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn told Parliament that the development, Thomas Guy House, was more than three years late on completion in April last year.
More detail has emerged about the nature of future public service provision with the announcement of several pilot projects which take a new look at improving older people’s quality of life.
The 28 pilots across the UK are part of a unique partnership, the first of its kind to bring together representatives from central and local government and private and voluntary sectors, with older people themselves.