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5 Key Questions To Ask When Considering Communications Technology For Your Public Sector Organisation
Lee Underwood, Channel Manager UK&I at Snom, shares some common denominators that public sector procurement managers should be looking out for when identifying the type of communications solution their organisation requires. Public sector organisations are continuing to increase their IT budgets, with spend almost doubling over the last five years to reach £17.3 billion in…
Read MoreThe Negative Impact Of Payroll Errors
In discussions around payroll accuracy, the focus is frequently on people, process and technology, and not on one of the less considered sources of error – payroll inputs. Ensuring that your people are well trained, your processes are right, and your technology is configured correctly are all very important steps to take; however, if the…
Read MoreHow Matrix helped Islington Council control their recruitment spend and compliance
Recruitment technology business Matrix started working in partnership with Islington Council in February 2022 helping the council to understand the problems they were facing and provide them with transparency, greater control on spend (increasing overall savings), complete and full compliance and an easier and more streamlined way of reporting. Difficulties across the board Islington is…
Read MoreQuick and Easy Help for Emergency Welfare: How Vouchers and Prepaid Cards Topped Cash
It will come as no surprise to anyone that we are living through one of the worst cost-of-living crises in decades. Inflation is at a 40-year high, taxes are continuing to creep up, and wages have stagnated. For many, there just simply isn’t enough money to pay for everyday essentials. The government has tried to…
Read MoreInnovative human-first model drives speed to impact
Interested in finding new ways to deliver services that are efficient, inclusive and empower staff and service users? Value creation and design thinking specialist Alex Barclay, founder of not-for-profit ‘do tank’ Fuzzy, shows how an inclusive, multi-disciplinary approach helps organisations innovate fast to deliver desirable, viable and feasible value generating solutions. Design for good In…
Read MoreThe Autumn Statement and social care – relief or more worry?
Dr Ruth Owen OBE is Chief Executive of disability charity Leonard Cheshire. Here she reflects on the Autumn Statement and asks whether it brought much-needed relief for the social care sector and for disabled people. Have disabled people faced a more anxious wait for a budget announcement in recent memory? It depends who you ask,…
Read MoreStriking for the wellbeing of all: Why the nurses strikes are about more than just pay
Holly Johnston is an NHS nurse and a member of grassroots organisation NHS Workers Say NO. In February they joined with over 50 other organisations to form the alliance SOS NHS to defend the NHS from further cuts. Here she outlines why nurses have taken the last resort and voted to strike. The RCN ballot…
Read MoreWaiting on the waiting list, but what for?
Saoirse Mallorie, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, reflects on the current NHS elective waiting list and deduces who is really waiting for what. The current waiting list in England makes for grim reading – in September 2022 it was more than 7 million1, up by 1.2 million since September last year, and 2.6 million…
Read MoreTechnology and the human touch
Our reliance on technology in everyday life is an accepted fact and the last two years have firmly underlined this. Thanks to digital technology, we were able to access the goods and services we rely on, without having to leave home during a pandemic. However, with this reliance comes a responsibility for organisations to keep…
Read MoreLiverpool’s arts scene: a COVID-19 life support network
The arts and culture sector can play a major role in improving mental health outcomes if properly integrated into public health strategy, argue Josie Billington, Ekaterina Balabanova and Joanne Worsley from the University of Liverpool. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the role and value of arts and culture in enhancing wellbeing. In…
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