All posts tagged "COVID-19 coronavirus"

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  UK government must improve commercial transparency and market knowledge, watchdog says

  The UK government’s “established processes” for commercial contracts lacked resilience under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic and it must improve transparency and its understanding of markets, the independent public

  • Posted July 21, 2021
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  Getting everyone into the COVID-19 vaccination queue

  Countries have made huge efforts to access and distribute vaccines – but to achieve ‘herd immunity’, they need to get them into the arms of the majority of their adult

  • Posted July 14, 2021
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  UK’s green recovery plan lacks ambition and co-ordination, think tank warns

  The UK government is lagging behind other countries in its green post-COVID recovery plans, according to a London-based think-tank. The government’s ambition for a green recovery is “modest” compared with

  • Posted July 12, 2021
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  Taking stock of the pandemic response: building human resilience in civil services

  Managing COVID-19 has placed huge demands on public and civil servants everywhere. Una O’Brien, leadership coach and former permanent secretary at the UK’s health department, explores what research tells us

  • Posted July 6, 2021
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  A post-industrial revolution

  If the UK government can create firm platforms for its use of data, civil servants heard at a recent Dun & Bradstreet webinar, the country could make a forward leap

  • Posted June 22, 2021
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  Infection barriers: the emerging ecosystem of COVID passports

  As ever more governments introduce COVID passports, experts from the private sector and three national civil services explored the issues at a GGF webinar – debating both their potential to

  • Posted June 21, 2021
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  Remote working in the UK civil service: from emergency response to business as usual

  The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated a huge change in working practices across the civil service, with nearly 90% of the 430,000 staff dispatched to their homes for months on end. At

  • Posted June 21, 2021
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  IRS tackling big digital transformation and legislative challenges

  The COVID-19 pandemic forced government agencies to accelerate digital transformation efforts, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was no exception. The IRS was already in a significant transition period, spurred

  • Posted June 21, 2021
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  EU launches digital Covid certificate to restore free movement

  Citizens of the EU-27 will soon be able to assert their freedom of movement rights across the bloc without COVID-19 testing, self-isolation or quarantine restrictions, after the EU completed the

  • Posted June 17, 2021
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  Today’s headlines, tomorrow’s to-do list: key takeaways from the G7 for civil servants

  The G7 leaders met in Cornwall last week, with an agenda dominated by the COVID-19 recovery. What tasks are likely to end up on officials’ desks? Karen Day reports on

  • Posted June 16, 2021
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