Willcocks L P, Currie W, Jackson S
Public Administration, (UK), Winter 97 (75/4)
Start page: 617 No of pages: 33
Assesses the applicability of business process re-engineering to the UK public sector and asks if its prescriptions and practices are suitable for radical organizational change in this context. Studies three major information technology projects, one in the health service and two in different parts of the postal service, which used a business process re-engineering approach. 

A senior figure in both the health and local government sectors has called upon councils to be a force for the future improved health of the population.
Lord Philip Hunt, who spent his working career in the NHS but has also served extensively as a councillor, said the key area in which the two sectors could come together was in acting together in the best interests of people using services. 

More evidence of the move to cross-sector working has emerged in further detail on the Chancellor’s Comprehensive Spending Review.
Among the initiatives to benefit from a three-year settlement bringing an extra five percent to the education budget, is a Sure Start programme.
Sure Start is a UK-wide programme endowed with 450 million pounds. 

Concepts and Techniques for the 1990s
Edited by: Colin Duncan, Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh
This book addresses the convergence of public administration and business management concepts in public management processes. As well as policy and reform issues, readings deal with how business concepts and techniques may be practically applied to public sector activities.