Thursday 7 May 2015

News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 6th May 2015



Start honing your collaboration skills and knowledge. You are going to be a very valuable asset to your employer or public sector clients, over the next few years.

The main political party manifestos indicate that public sector collaborative transformation is not only here to stay in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England, but likely to be accelerated.

There are no mentions of reversing the integration of health and social care, nor stopping the 40 potential combined authorities and city regions. Or undoing the large tranche of blue light multi-million pound transformations under way, or putting the hundreds of local authority shared service projects on hold.

The evidence, from HEFCE, Audit Commission, NAO and others is that, without skilled and knowledgeable support (that means you and your SSA toolboxes!), between 50 to 70% of these accelerated collaborations could fail to deliver on the promise of their business case, and up to 33% could fail outright.

Enjoy the election (national and local) and I look forward to seeing you on the other side!

Here is this week’s news update and eight potential jobs…

Local Government

Surrey and East Sussex launched money-saving partnership

A partnership between two county councils will share services to make improvements and save millions. Read more >>>

Transform cities into powerhouses for ‘staggering’ national gain, says report

Devolving power to 26 of Britain's smaller cities could transform them into economic powerhouses and save the government £2.5bn a year, a think tank claims. Read more >>>

IT systems and Data protection

Cloud computing is either already in use or being piloted by almost 90% of local public service providers despite ‘underlying’ concerns about security, a new report from Socitm has revealed. Read more >>>

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Health

Partnership breakdown threatens telemedicine project in West Suffolk

A telemedicine project could suffer following the breakdown of a partnership between West Suffolk CCG and West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Read more >>>

Health courier services transferred from ambulance trust

The Welsh Government has announced that the responsibility for the planning and delivery of health courier transport services has been moved from the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust to a separate organisation as part of measures to modernise the service. Read more >>>

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FE/HE

UK universities save over £1.38bn but more must be done to remain competitive, claims new report

A new report on the potential of collaboration and shared services in UK higher education (HE) launches this week from Loughborough University and the Efficiency Exchange – the service operated by Universities UK (UUK) in partnership with Jisc, Leadership Foundation and HEFCE. Read more >>>

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Housing

Leicester Quaker HA amalgamates with NCHA

Leicester Quaker Housing Association (LQHA) has amalgamated with Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA). Read more >>>



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