NHS ROLLS OUT WORLD’S LARGEST HUMAN RESOURCES SYSTEM

More than 900,000 live records have now been set up on the NHS Electronic Staff Record, making it the World’s largest integrated HR & Payroll system. It provides a service for more than 400 organisations and is on time and on budget to be completed in spring 2008, when it will hold the records of all 1.2 million NHS employees. The system is being delivered by a McKesson led partner consortium, which includes Oracle and IBM. McKesson was founded in the USA in 1833.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT AT THE CROSSROADS

Five years after the first Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder projects were launched to improve public services and make them more responsive to local needs, particularly in deprived areas, local government has yet to commit to support this approach into the future through its own mainstream funds. A review of the work of the Pathfinders from Communities and Local Government questions whether the projects have made sufficient difference to become a mainstream approach for improving neighbourhoods.

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Positive views were expressed at the road shows about the idea of a more mature conversation on performance and targets. LAAs are acting as catalysts for change, particularly in strengthening and improving partnership working. However, some participants were sceptical about the promised reduction in the reporting burden actually materialising.There was strong sense from participants that LAAs have been seen as a marginal within local authorities and by some partners. As a result, levels of involvement of some key partners are still variable. There was concern about the extra work negotiating new LAAs would cause and the impact on their relationships with their partners. Negotiating the LAA had put a strain on some Local Strategic Partnerships which did not have sufficiently robust governance or performance management arrangements.

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