Archives for May 28th, 2003

COUNCILS ASKED FOR VIEWS ON CHANGES IN HOUSING IMPROVEMENT FUNDING SCHEME

Headlines, PublicNet: 28 May, 2003

Local councils, housing authorities and other groups with an interest in  the Public Finance Initiative are to be consulted over proposals designed to help improve council tenants’ homes. The plans have been published in a consultation paper from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It expects the proposals to help clear the way for an increase in the number of  Housing Revenue Account Public Finance Initiative schemes to provide funding to improve council houses.It suggests replacing the current system, where the level of HRA subsidy  for PFI schemes in a year is linked to the housing authority’s interest rate. Housing authorities operating PFI schemes have been concerned that under this formula historically low interest rates have meant that long-term subsidy entitlement might not match the true costs of the scheme because charges to the authority are fixed for the period of a project and take no account of interest rate fluctuations.

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NHS IT PROGRAMME MOVES FORWARD IN KEY AREAS

Headlines, PublicNet: 28 May, 2003

The National Programme for IT in the National Health Service has announced progress on five specific key areas. They are confirmation of the formal long-list for Local Service Providers and the National Application Service Providers for the Integrated Care Record Service, publication of the Output Based Specification for the record service, finalisation of the geographic clusters for the LSP contracts, selection of the formal shortlist for the National Application Service Provider for the e-Booking service and posting of a contract notice for a National Infrastructure Service Provider.The programme has notified the successful candidates who have progressed from the pre-qualification stage of the procurement process. Twenty-two, comprising both individual companies and consortia, have been long-listed as potential LSPs and eight as potential NASPs.

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