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Paying dividends - Local Healthcare Co-operatives bulletin
Local Healthcare Co-operatives (LHCCs) are voluntary groupings of general practitioners and primary healthcare professionals, accountable to Primary Healthcare Trusts. There are…
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Accounts Commission Annual Report 2000
Councils could save £68 million. The Accounts Commission's Annual Report includes a summary of the main messages arising from local authority financial audits and value for money…
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Overview of the 1999/2000 Local Authority Audits
The Accounts Commission remains concerned that, four years after local government reorganisation, there are still weaknesses in many councils' financial systems and controls. The…
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National Health Service bodies in Tayside
In this report into the problems facing the health service in Tayside, the Auditor General, Robert Black, has highlighted the need for careful management and monitoring of…
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A good start - Commissioning pre-school education
Councils in Scotland have met the Scottish Executive target for guaranteeing free pre-school education for all four-year-olds and are already close to meeting the target for full…
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Equipped to care - Managing medical equipment in the NHS in Scotland
The report looks at the management of medical equipment by NHS trusts in Scotland over a one year period and concludes that the management of medical equipment in Scotland's…
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Benefits, Finance and Corporate issues - Performance indicators 1999/2000
The report highlights that Scotland's councils collected just over 88% of the £1.26billion council tax due for the year, within 1999/2000. It also shows that councils paid less…
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Getting to know your services - A step-by-step guide to developing and using information portfolios to monitor and report performance
Audit Scotland has produced a paper to support the development of performance information in councils. Getting to know your services provides step-by-step guidance to managers on…
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Regulatory services - Performance indicators 1999/2000
The report shows that nearly nine out of ten food hygiene inspections in higher risk premises are undertaken within time, 94% of complaints noise complaints were dealt with within…
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Environmental services - Performance indicators 1999/2000
The report highlights that despite continued efforts to improve Scotland's record on recycling household waste, councils still sent 93% of waste to landfill in 1999/2000. Only…
