Archives for November 22nd, 2001

DOCTORS CONCERNED ABOUT BURDEN OF INSPECTION

Headlines, PublicNet: 22 November, 2001

The British Medical Association wants to halt the growth in inspection because clinicians and others spend many hours preparing for visits and there is the potential for disturbing the delivery of patient care. It has called for a review of inspection mechanisms to see if they can be rationalised to avoid overlap and duplication. GPs and other health care professionals already face a multitude of visits and inspections from various bodies including the Commission for Health Improvement, medical royal colleges and the Audit Commission. The National Care Standards Commission will start to operate in April 2002 and current legislation provides for setting up Patients’ Forums.The BMA has proposed that the National Care Standards Commission, which will inspect and regulate health care provided in the independent and voluntary sectors, should be merged with the Commission for Health Improvement which already monitors the quality of patient care in the NHS. The BMA believes that the border between the NHS and the independent and voluntary sectors is becoming increasingly blurred. The Government plans to expand the involvement of the private sector in the NHS and an increasing number of NHS patients are receiving treatment over this border. The BMA argues that the inspection arrangements should better reflect the reality of the developing situation.

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BREAKTHROUGH IN MANAGING LARGE IT PROJECTS

Headlines, PublicNet: 22 November, 2001

A joint government and industry group believes it has developed a framework to put an end to the cost and time overruns associated with previous IT project failures. The Senior IT Forum, jointly sponsored by the Office of Government Commerce and the Computing Services and Software Association was given the task of finding ways to deliver better IT projects and to create a government market place more accessible for suppliers. They found a number of barriers obstructing the way forward. They included lack of clear private sector leadership, lack of transparency to suppliers of the assessment of value for money, lack of openness and trust between government and industry and contracts that failed to encourage partnering behaviour.Behavioural patterns were found to have often been at the heart of the difficulties in delivering facilities and services and the Forum has developed a framework to improve cultural understanding and strengthen leadership. In future the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) from the government side and an Industry Equivalent (IE) from the industry side will work jointly to set the basis on which the two parties will work together to deliver the IT-enabled business change. They will seek to resolve issues arising from cultural differences.

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THE POLICE FUNDING FORMULA: DOES IT REFLECT LONDON’S CRIME MANAGEMENT NEEDS?

Abstracts, PublicNet: 22 November, 2001

By George Houpis, Michael Littlechild and Stephen Gifford.

The allocation of funds to police authorities in England and Wales is based on a formula which has been constructed to capture the key drivers of the main activities of the police: crime management, call management, public order and reassurance and traffic management. The formula was based on data from a 1995/96 survey by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), using data on police activity and recorded crime from 1990-92. In this article, the authors argue that the resultingallocation no longer reflects accurately the policing needs of London.

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