Allowing a mobile workforce to access corporate databases was a problem solved many years ago with laptop computers, but an innovative and cheaper option has been developed in New Zealand. Council employees, equipped only with mobile phones, use text messaging to request and receive the data they need. This case study describes how a mobile data server provides the technology and the benefits the system delivers.
Hospitals in central London face nursing staff turnover levels of up to 38 per cent each year, according to King’s Fund research published today (Friday, September 6) in the British Medical Journal.’Mind the Gap: the extent of the NHS nursing shortage’ says that of a total of 33 acute NHS trusts in London, 19 have turnover rates of a quarter or more. Seven of the trusts had rates of more than one-third and these were all in inner London.
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Ministers are to face a cross-cutting ‘question time’ to reflect the increasing policy work happening across traditional departmental boundaries.The change is one of many listed in ‘Modernisation of the House of Commons: A Reform Programme’ produced by the House Modernisation Committee.