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Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC)

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity raises funds to support the needs of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, a national centre of excellence in children's health care. GOSHCC delivers the widest range of specialist paediatric care in the UK. Each year, the charity funds the purchase of equipment, accommodations for staff and patient's families, support services, research and staff training. GOSHCC also contributes toward providing .....[MORE]

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North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust manages North Hampshire Hospital, a 480-bed acute facility located in Basingstoke, U.K. The trust was established in 1994 and now serves a population of approximately 280,000. Through the hospital, it provides a wide range of acute and specialist services on an inpatient, day-case, and outpatient basis, and also manages a multimillion-pound education and research center. .....[MORE]

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NHS Tayside

As one of the largest National Health Service (NHS) administrations in Scotland, NHS Tayside aims âto improve the health of the people living in Tayside, and to reduce health inequalities. Amongst its many functions, NHS Tayside is responsible for the performance management of the local NHS system, comprising two NHS .....[MORE]

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Sun/SAP finance solution fully supports the ODPMs business needs

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) was created as a central government department in May 2002 bringing together key responsibilities for regional and local government, fire, housing, planning and regeneration. The ODPM includes functions and structures that were previously part of the Cabinet Office or the former .....[MORE]

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Kent Fire Brigade

As one of the largest fire brigades in the country, Kent Fire Brigade is responsible for delivering fire and rescue services to over 1.5 million people in the county of Kent, from 66 fire stations and 13 District Fire Safety Offices. The brigade employs just over 1,700 fire-fighters and almost .....[MORE]

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West Yorkshire Police

With around 5,200 police officers and 2,300 support staff, serving approximately 2.1 million people over an area of 780 square miles, West Yorkshire Police is the fourth largest force in the country. Headquartered in Wakefield, the forces area combines busy cities and towns, with quiet villages and picturesque rural locations. .....[MORE]

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Mapping out the future

We reviewed both Sun Microsystems and Intel based architectures, and came down firmly in favour of Sun we already had some Sun systems, and have a very good relationship with Sun but the key deciding factor was that the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Sun solution .....[MORE]

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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council holds two Beacon Awards from the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and is one of five Merseyside metropolitan borough districts. With a population of over 150,000, Knowsley works hard to provide its residents with the most up-to -date, innovative services that are both .....[MORE]

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ITNET and Sun Partner to Deliver Modernisation at London Borough of Enfield

Following a long period of sustained success in both the local Government and commercial sectors, ITNET is now setting the agenda in the provision of subscription based IT services, to local Governments across the UK, with its Business Direct service. Business Directs message is don't waste time and scarce funding .....[MORE]

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Ministry of Defence Runs New E-Procurement System on Sun Enterprise Servers

Sun Microsystems Enterprise servers are underpinning the Government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) department's revolutionary new electronic commerce and electronic business initiative, Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS). Initial phases of the new service are already rolling out.

Sun Enterprise server systems, initially E4500 and E450s, constitute the primary hardware platforms on .....[MORE]

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Hammersmith and Fulham Council looks to increased efficiency with BSI and Sun

Located close to the heart of London, Hammersmith and Fulham enjoys a wide cultural diversity of people and communities and continues to be successful in attracting an increasing number of major companies as well as offering an enviable choice of arts and entertainments venues, playing host to three professional .....[MORE]

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Sun Educational Services Enpowers Penwith District Council at the Desktop

Penwith District Council has successfully completed a comprehensive training programme in conjunction with Sun Educational Services (SES), designed to enable the Council's 220-strong team to reap the full benefits of its new Sun Microsystems IT infrastructure - which incorporates Sun Ray technology and runs Sun's StarOffice suite of office-based applications. .....[MORE]

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Laying the foundations of E-Governement

The Practitioner Services (Dental) Cobol mainframe system was nearly twenty years old and had been continually modified to reflect the regular changes surrounding dental care payments under the NHS.

To take the organisation into the third millennium, Practitioner Services appointed Newell & Budge to develop a totally new solution based on .....[MORE]

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Salford City Council Secures Significant Productivity Gains Running SAP on Servers

Salford City Council is one of a growing number of local authorities who have turned to solutions delivery experts in divining a way ahead in the often fraught and choppy waters of procuring and implementing business management computer systems. As in the commercial world, one error of judgement in buying .....[MORE]

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iPlanet Directory Server Automates Key Administration Tasks

Embracing the local government authorities of Perth and Kinross, Angus and the city metropolis of Dundee, Tayside Health Board is one of the largest NHS administrations in Scotland. Two NHS Health Trusts are responsible for the health of the boards population of 389,000: Tayside Primary Care, and Tayside University Hospitals.

Between .....[MORE]

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Citizen E-Goverment

"I am determined government should play its part so I am bringing forward our target for getting all government services online, from 2000 to 2005. This will mean that people and businesses will be able to access government services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is a .....[MORE]

 
 

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