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info@commonwealthcontractors.comA senor member of the Office of Budget Responsibility, Geoffrey Dicks, told the Treasury select committee that spending cuts will hurt growth and increase the chances of a double-dip recession occurring. He said that the OBR had taken 0.5% off GDP and the near term outlook for GDP was not as good as it was […]
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The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), which is set for a large scale revamp following the announcement of radical changes to the NHS, managed to cost the taxpayer £1.06 Billion in the period. CSC, Fujitsu and Atos appear to have been the biggest beneficiaries from National Health Service IT spending, with CSC taking £232 […]
Peter Griffiths, the director of the National Nursing Research Unit, has said the onus is on the NHS to solve any shortages by training its own staff, rather than recruiting from abroad. Mr Griffiths recently told the Nursing Times that some areas, including theatre nurses, were experiencing shortages because they were no longer part of […]
ReThink Recruitment Director, Michael Bennett, said that “London has a high concentration of financial services firms, which are heavy users of IT skills. Many of them responded to the downturn by cutting their IT departments to the bone. As businesses levels have picked up, many have found themselves understaffed and have had to replace a […]
Dave Pye of the Recruitment and Employment Confederations (REC) technology sector group said that “A lot of the growth we have seen has been for business technology skills, rather than just pure-play technology skills, for areas like financial services or pharmaceuticals, underlining demand for people that can get things done. The demand we have seen […]
Gartner recommends CIOs to: Act Now: The Company recommends senior staff to convene now as most official national recession declarations are only announced well after the actual start of a recession Focus on the current Financial Year: CIOs should determine which projects to approve, postpone or cancel Focus on the next Financial Year: Once all […]
The proposals include plans to: Allow patients to communicate with their clinicians via an online system Give patients access to their Medical Records Maximise the use of Choose and Book, the online appointment booking system used by GPs to organise consultant meetings for patients Although the National Programme for Information Technology was not mentioned in […]
No decision about me without me The Government intends to create a ‘shared decision making’ environment in the National Health Service between patients and healthcare providers. Based on International evidence the Government believes that the changes will result in improved treatment, increased patient satisfaction and significant cost savings. Government proposals are based on three key […]
In the forward to the white paper the Government says that “We will make the NHS more accountable to patients. We will free staff from excessive bureaucracy and top-down control. We will increase real terms spending on the health service in every year of this Parliament. First, patients will be at the heart of everything […]
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said that “This site gives you the chance to tell us which laws and regulations you think we should get rid of. Your feedback will inform government policy and some of your proposals could end up making it into bills we bring before Parliament to change the law. We\’ve […]