An electronic tax disc system comes into effect tomorrow, 1 October. The cost savings that will be made at DVLC raise questions about potential savings that could be made in other parts of the public sector by going digital.
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By specifying the end result, rather than the process of achieving it, a Dutch hospital has slashed the cost of bed cleaning by 35 per cent.
The Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam asked the bidders to design a more cost and environmentally efficient solution to disinfect the hospital’s 70,000 beds and mattresses.
New approaches to organisational change need to be top of the agenda to secure transformational change.
Research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has show that relational leadership is key for motivation, while collaborative storytelling enables both leaders and employees to participate actively.
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Universities and FE colleges have saved £11.4 million across their procurement budgets by using cost-effective supply frameworks.
The University Caterers Organisation, TUCO, provides frameworks for members with transparent fees, flexible purchasing and the benefits of the buying power of the organisation.
TUCO has built an enviable reputation operating on behalf of Higher and Further education institutions, which make up its core membership. However, as part of a new approach and growing market presence, it is increasingly extending its free-to-access frameworks to in-house local authority catering teams in the wider education sector, and NHS trust hospital caterers.
By opening up access TUCO’s already extensive buying power is strengthened, ensuring its position as a market leader. Its commitment to ‘better buying’ for its members has seen it develop unmatched sustainability policies, bringing dozens of SMEs and local producers onto its supplier lists and supporting members to create best practice initiatives.
Mike Haslin, TUCO Chief Operating Officer, commented:
“£11m is a significant figure and there is more that our members can do by joining together to further increase the benefits of community buying. The figure helps to highlight our commitment to procurement best practice and reflects the importance of extending and developing new links with related organisations outside of traditional membership.
We have worked hard over the past 12 months to provide more ways for those working in the public sector to enjoy greater value, security and opportunity from their purchasing decisions, offering framework agreements that save unbeatable rates of time and money through automatic compliance factors. As a not-for-profit organisation, we consider ourselves a perfect partner for public service operators, and it is our hope that we can continue to help share an ethos of procurement best practice without a profit-making agenda.”
Recently negotiated TUCO framework agreements include fresh and frozen meat and fruit and vegetables. TUCO collaborates with some of the leading suppliers in the sector, as well as actively seeking partnerships with smaller, local partners.
A&E departments are now able to share data about attendees injured by violent crime with the police.
A new standard from the Health and Social Care Information Centre allows major NHS A&E departments in England to collect and share non-confidential data about attendances involving violent crime with Community Safety Partnerships.
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This report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, describes how employers and universities are working together to build pathways to the highly skilled jobs crucial to the UK’s economic future.
Digital presentation technology is starting to be installed for providers to use in magistrates’ courts.
The installation of magistrates in-court presentation technology is initially taking place in 21 magistrates’ courts during September 2014 before full national roll-out. This is due to take place across England and Wales in the next 12 months.
In this book Dennis Lock and Lindsay Scott focus on the people side of project management. Modern projects are all about one group of people delivering benefits to others, so it’s no surprise that the human element is fundamental to project management.
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The Demos report on the Commission on Residential Care calls for
a housing with care sector fit for the twenty-first century.
The objectives of the Commission were to create a vision of ‘housing with care’, not bound by existing definitions and
to set out how the existing offer could change to deliver this vision, across financial, operational, governance and cultural aspects of care.
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