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25/10/2004
Efficiency drive set to redeploy £6bn into NHS frontline
A drive to release £6.45 billion across local government to benefit frontline health staff over the next three years has been announced today.
The drive, part of the Care Services Efficiency Delivery (CSED) programme, was established following recommendations by the Gershon Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency and aims to develop a partnership with local councils to improve the quality of services for vulnerable adults and deliver efficiency gains back to frontline services.
The CSED teams, visiting the first councils this week, will explore with councils how social services can learn from other sectors of industry. They will also work with councils to look at new ways of "configuring, procuring and delivering care services" in order to release efficiency gains into higher quality personal centred care.
Health Minister Stephen Ladyman said the programme was not about cuts but about "long-term investment in high quality frontline services".
"However there will be no one size fits all solutions, councils and the programme teams will work together to put in place systems that are tailored to suit local service needs," he said.
Mr Ladyman also announced an integration of seven health department programmes designed to bring substantial benefits to service users through the "unification of good practice and service improvement".
The health department will reduce its staff roll by 1400 - from over 3,600 posts to 2,200 - by October 2004. Half of those posts will not be replaced and will be achieved by efficiency savings, while the rest of the reduction will result from transferring posts to other national bodies
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The drive, part of the Care Services Efficiency Delivery (CSED) programme, was established following recommendations by the Gershon Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency and aims to develop a partnership with local councils to improve the quality of services for vulnerable adults and deliver efficiency gains back to frontline services.
The CSED teams, visiting the first councils this week, will explore with councils how social services can learn from other sectors of industry. They will also work with councils to look at new ways of "configuring, procuring and delivering care services" in order to release efficiency gains into higher quality personal centred care.
Health Minister Stephen Ladyman said the programme was not about cuts but about "long-term investment in high quality frontline services".
"However there will be no one size fits all solutions, councils and the programme teams will work together to put in place systems that are tailored to suit local service needs," he said.
Mr Ladyman also announced an integration of seven health department programmes designed to bring substantial benefits to service users through the "unification of good practice and service improvement".
The health department will reduce its staff roll by 1400 - from over 3,600 posts to 2,200 - by October 2004. Half of those posts will not be replaced and will be achieved by efficiency savings, while the rest of the reduction will result from transferring posts to other national bodies
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