All posts tagged "Reform"

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  New health booking system tackles corruption and cuts waiting times

  A new appointment booking system introduced in the city of Canoas, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul region, has boosted the number of daily consultations from 900 to 2,000. The

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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  Patricia Scotland calls for Commonwealth-wide anti-corruption unit

  The new head of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, has today called for the creation of a new unit working across the 53 nation group to fight corruption. Scotland, who

  • Posted April 18, 2016
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  Public officials in Germany set to stage further strikes over wage dispute

  Public sector workers in Germany are set to stage further strikes later this month over failed wage negotiations with the government. Verdi, one of Germany’s biggest and most influential unions

  • Posted April 14, 2016
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  Australia and UK sign agreement to collaborate on digital transformation

  Australia and the UK have signed an official agreement committing both governments to share information and help each other in developing digital public services. Both governments’ digital teams – Australia’s

  • Posted April 13, 2016
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  New performance management system to affect more than 600,000 U.S. civil servants

  More than 600,000 civil servants at the U.S. defence department are to undergo a new performance management system dividing officials into three tiers: ‘outstanding’, ‘fully successful’ and ‘unacceptable’. The new

  • Posted April 12, 2016
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  Administrative reform bill passes first reading in Estonian Parliament

  The Estonian government’s administrative reform bill, which proposes radical changes to the country’s local government structures, has passed its first reading in Parliament (Riigikogu). The bill proposes that any local

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Microlink shortlisted for Guardian Sustainable Business Awards

  Microlink has been shortlisted in the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards, in which organisations are judged on their track record of going “above and beyond standard sustainability practice” to achieve “measurable,

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Loosening Defence Equipment & Support pay controls has brought down salary bills, says Jon Thompson, UK’s outgoing MoD perm sec

  Liberating Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) from cross-civil service salary controls has cut the Ministry of Defence (MoD) agency’s staffing bill even as its workforce grows, outgoing MoD permanent secretary

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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  Refugee wave into Germany offers chance to boost nation’s productivity, says OECD

  The recent wave of refugees into Germany represents an opportunity to increase productivity in the country, but only if the new arrivals are integrated properly, the OECD’s secretary general Angel

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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