A new forum of representatives from the private sector, IT industry associations and Government are to push forward the electronic government agenda.Public Service Minister Peter Kilfoyle said he and the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Dr Jack Cunningham, would be personally involved in the project, to ensure it stayed on track. 

The Government’s new league tables on operation costs across Britain’s hospitals will be used a s tool to force out inefficiency.The National Schedule of Reference Costs has been compiled from detailed information supplied by all 249 NHS Trusts conducting operations.
It reveals huge variations in how much the same operation costs from hospital to hospital. The cost of hip replacement can vary from 1,834 to 6,494 pounds. 

L Worrell and CL CooperThe report has been produced out of a 5 year joint study by the Institute of Management and Wolverhampton Business School. It explores the changing nature of managerial work and the impact of organisational change on public sector managers’ work experience and attitudes. The data set has been used to compare the experiences of public sector managers against those in other forms of organisation.
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