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 [Foia.blogspot.com] UK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Blog: May 2005: "Highland Council in Scotland has placed all its hygiene and health and safety inspection reports on its website. The council says that, as well as ‘significantly reducing the administrative burden of dealing with individual freedom of information requests’, the move will highlight positively the work done by the council’s environmental health service."

 [Society.guardian.co.uk] SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | MPs warn of 70 failing Whitehall ...: Among the most spectacular computer fiascos are the new £6bn NHS national system for booking operations, which is more than a year late and has so far arranged 63 appointments; the computerisation of magistrates court records, which went up from £146m to £400m;

 [Clients.voltuum.com] Raw Carrot » Random: Some of the more amusing Google search referrals (what people have searched for only to end up here):

[Nhsnhs.blog.co.uk] into the NHS - March 2006: Following the management reforms and outsourcing of non-clinical services to the private sector by the Thatcher and Major governments, came the "internal market", breaking up the NHS into hundreds of competing operating companies (culminating in the creation of the almost fully autonomous foundation trusts) and the transfer of political accountability from the secretary of state to a regulator, known0 as Monitor. The PFI, loading individual NHS hospitals with the costs of private sector borrowing, was followed by the uncoupling of resource allocation from a basis in the needs of local communities and a switch to "payment by results", involving the costing and payment for every individual patient treatment.

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