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PUBLIC SECTOR NEWS
Anger at £127m redundancy bill
Top executives at Labour-controlled Glasgow City Council are set to receive an average of £128,000
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ID checks 'out of control'
The scraping of ID cards has not slackened the UK's ID culture, campaign group NO2ID has said
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Two councils save through websites
Manchester and Edinburgh councils have announced new websites designed to better target customer needs
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Welsh gov lost mobiles and laptops
£21,000 worth of technology equipment has been lost over the last two years, an FoI request has revealed
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Council costs inflated by 'poor websites'
Councils could be spending 23 times the amount necessary for dealing with customer enquiries due to poor websites
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LATEST FEATURES
Demanding more of NHS procurement
In 2009 the direction for NHS procurement appeared clear for the next few years. But the general election seems to have changed that. Colin Cram, who will chair Public Service Events' Procurement in the NHS conference, looks to the futureOnline power to the people
Having invested millions in ICT, Birmingham City Council is looking for returns. Dawn Flook, the council's Customer First programme delivery manager, argues that e-government aspects of transformation will empower citizens and deliver savings
Taking stock of patient safety
Patient safety can be compromised by poor stock control that leads to out of date medical supplies on hospital shelves or crucial items running out. But IT systems can make sure surgeons have what they need at the same time as cutting waste, writes Joel Haspel, CEO of Sentient Health
One more heave – or does Labour need a much deeper ideological renewal?
As voting begins on who will be the next Labour Party leader and Tony Blair urges the party not to abandon New Labour, Rick Muir from the Institute for Public Policy Research wonders if the party needs a whole new approach
Physical, Virtual, Cloud: the future of public sector IT
In a time of budget cuts, virtualisation and cloud computing could allow public sector organisations to get the most from their IT, writes David Blackman, general manager of Northern Europe, Acronis
THE THINGS THEY SAY...
Caller to Surrey County Council: I’ve tried the number given on your website for the library but it doesn’t work. Council employee: What was the number? Caller: 0900 1800. Council employee: I’m sorry, those are the times the library is open. 
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