Birmingham could become the first British city with an ‘Intelligent Transport’ network under plans put forward by a digital technology consortium. The proposals would bring together data on traffic congestion, car parking and bus schedules to create real time tracking information related to where someone is when they make an inquiry.
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A local government think tank has warned that 200,000 people are at risk from illegal loan sharks. In a report the New Local Government Network is urging councils to do more to support local credit unions and step up action against illegal lenders.
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By Colin Thunhurst
Health visitors play a vital part in promoting health in the community, but their numbers have been falling. Recent failures in child protection have put them back in the spotlight with the recognition that they could make a difference. The author argues that this focus on their value to society gives the opportunity to explore the leadership role they could play across the boundaries of the different professions.
More needs to be done to encourage whistleblowing within the National Health Service, according to an editorial published on bmj.com. It says more statutory protection, the support of regulatory bodies but above all a change in culture are needed to ensure patients and clinicians are protected.
The NHS has innovated since its inception 60 years ago. The first total hip replacement operation was performed in 1962 in Wigan, and today there are 62,000 operations each year. The new duty to promote innovation is designed to move the culture further along the innovation road and encourage people at all levels to think creatively about how things might be done differently.
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Better property asset management has the potential to deliver efficiency savings greater than all the other strands of the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme put together. Publicnet provides an overview of the Programme.
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Sweating the people assets is a well tried way of increasing efficiency and the public sector has many examples of how this can be done. The ‘Total Place’ proposals, part of the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme, sets out a blueprint for working smarter and making efficiency savings. The ‘Total Place’ strand of the Operational Efficiency Programme brings together elements of central government and local agencies within a place. Publicnet provides an overview of the Programme.
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Never waste a crisis, but make sure that benefit comes from all the pain and suffering. The Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme does just that. The recession, and particularly the government debt, has focused minds on change and created a willingness to see things differently. Public service history shows that without minds that have been opened by events it is very difficult to make change happen.
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Council leaders are calling on parents to let their children be children and to shake off what they call ‘the cotton-wool culture’. The plea has come from the Local Government Association which is promising councils will put adventure back into play and which has produced research showing playgrounds moving away from the days of ‘no ball-games allowed’.
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