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Programme Management
The NPfIT programme is intended to deliver 24 hour, immediate access to consistent, shared information that will enable clinicians to provide timely and appropriate care for their patients.
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Making the case for BCP
If Business Continuity Planning (BCP) has a higher profile today than twenty years ago, it is in no small way due to the activities of terrorist organisations
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Education, Higher Education, Utilities, Transport, Financial Services, International, Disaster planning and recovery, Risk management.
Outsourcing - is your deal set up to fail?
Outsourcing, whether it be front or back office services; specific functions or applications; on-shore or off-shore, has been around for nearly two decades. It is now a fairly mature industry, so why are so many outsourcing contracts still going wrong?
See: Central Government & Agencies, Local Government, Health, Housing, Education, Higher Education, Transport, International, Financial management advice, Procurement support, Outsourcing advice, Benefits management and achievement, Business case development, Systems procurement, Service outsourcing, Risk management.
Social Enterprises in Health and Social Care - What Are They?
Nick Wensley discusses the potential for social enterprises to help health and social care sectors more closely reflect the needs of patients and the local community.
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Growth of NHS Foundation Trusts
NHS foundation trusts provide healthcare according to the core NHS principles yet, as Anne Quirk reveals, they have a number of significant differences.
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Project Management vs. Configuration Management
Geoff Beeson looks at why configuration management maybe more valuable on large scale IS/IT projects than traditional project management.
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Commissioning Best Practice Checklist
Oakleigh have developed a commissioning checklist as a brief aide memoir to commissioners to ensure the latest commissioning rounds are inclusive of best practice.
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A practical approach to Project Management
Programme and project management (PPM) is an increasingly important skill for all public sector organizations particularly within the NHS ICT world. Experience shows that hard-edged project management approaches can be detrimental and can leave people feeling that they are feeding a process rather than attacking real issues and problems.
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Risk Management in the Health Service
Risk management is key to the effective running of any organisation, change programme or implementation project.
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IT Supplier Relationships
We look at possible problems with the delivery of IT services and suggests pragmatic ways of dealing with them.
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