Archives for January 30th, 2004

GPs TO GET EXTRA MONEY FOR IT

Headlines, PublicNet: 30 January, 2004

Family doctors will learn next week how much extra money their Primary Care Trusts are to get for IT equipment. The letters will be sent from the Health Minister John Hutton, who has announced that an extra 30 million pounds is being made available to ensure that general practitioners’ IT systems are ready for the implementation of their new contracts in April.The money comes in addition to the 20 million pounds already committed to primary care IT under the new contract agreement. It means that all family doctors should be able to have in place the systems necessary to process the clinical data that is central to the quality-based contracts. This is expected to bring about improvements not only to patient care but also to GPs’ rewards.

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COMMISSION POINTS TO MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN SERVING COMMUNITIES

Headlines, PublicNet: 30 January, 2004

Public bodies are missing a valuable opportunity to improve their services through a failure to meet the needs of their diverse communities, according to a new report on race equality from the Audit Commission. It says too many organisations focus on setting up systems that merely comply with the letter of the law.The report, “Journey to Race Equality – Delivering Improved Services For Local Communities”, says that many public organisations are unsure of what they are trying to achieve in terms of race equality. It calls for managers and front-line staff to have the appropriate training and resources and for service providers to prioritise and integrate equality in their organisational culture.

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Public Management – Time for a Re-launch

Features, PublicNet: 30 January, 2004

By Francis Terry Reproduced by permission of the Public Management and Policy Association. The path of public management reform in the last two decades has led through privatization, contracting out, the rise of inspectorates, the decline of professionalism, proliferation of targets and the growth of technology. The author calls for government to make a serious review of how things work in the public services and make an impartial assessment of the instruments at its disposal. He proposes a national initiative to promote training, career development and leadership in public management.

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