Policy Statements and Initiatives
HMT: The Government has confirmed the launch of an independent review of fair pay in the public sector headed by leading economist, Will Hutton. The review will investigate pay scales across the public sector and make recommendations on how to ensure that no public sector manger can earn more than 20 times the lowest paid person in the organisation. The review will publish an interim report in Autumn 2010 and a final report in Spring of 2011.
DH: The NHS will begin to make immediate efficiency savings by tackling escalating management costs in order to meet the increasing demands on NHS services, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said recently. A revision to the 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework, published last week, sets out changes to key priorities for the NHS including plans to reverse the rise in management costs seen in the last year.
The overall reduction in management costs by 2013/14 will be £850m, which is a 46% reduction on the 2009/10 management costs. The Operating Framework revisions ask the NHS to give greater priority to 2 important areas, military veterans’ health & dementia.
Press release ~ Revision to the Operating Framework for the NHS in England for 2010/11 ~ Related Kings’ Fund press release
CO: The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has pledged to scrap hundreds of unnecessary & expensive government websites and slash the cost of the remaining sites to save £ms. In autumn 2006 the previous Government committed to dramatically culling the number of websites. In March 2010 there were still 794 websites; now, the Government has identified 820.
No new websites will be permitted except for those that pass through a stringent exceptions process for special cases and the expectation is that the review, which will report by the Spending Review in September 2010, will aim to shut down up to 75% of existing sites and then look at getting the remaining sites to cuts their costs by up to 50% and move onto common infrastructures.
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