Government & Public Sector: doing better with lessWith a fresh approach to the way we serve the Government sector, Ernst & Young combines private sector best practice with an understanding of the public sector’s diverse needs, focusing upon building capability to deliver improved public services. We provide business consulting, financial assurance and advisory services to public sector clients. Our government practice focuses on helping our clients implement government policy, to drive benefits and growth through financial effectiveness, operational performance efficiencies and through delivery of major programmes on time and to budget. Central governmentWe work across a wide range of central government departments, helping our clients to find innovative answers to complex challenges they face as they strive to ensure better services at lower costs, sustainable economic development, a safe environment, more transparency and increased accountability. Access Ernst & Young thought leadership on central government issues here. Local public servicesAlong with our clients we share a deep commitment to public value. We work with our local government clients to ensure more efficient and enhanced public services, bringing the best thinking and practical experience locally, nationally and from around the world to help them deliver tangible, sustainable improvements. Browse Ernst & Young thought leadership in local public services here. HealthcareWe work with a range of organisations across the health economy including the Department of Health, NHS providers and commissioners. Our team includes a includes a number of ex-clinicians, bringing broad sector experience and deep subject matter knowledge to inform our clients policy and strategy development, implementation and service improvement. Find out more about Ernst & Young in UK healthcare here. | When remote care is core: technology-based channels for delivery of care Recognising the potential for remote care and its benefits for patients, relatives, health care practitioners, payors and society as a whole, EY conducted research to gather and aggregate experience from international remote care implementations. Top 10 risks and opportunities: government and public sector Fears of a double-dip recession rank high for the government and public sector, but how valid are these concerns? Fiscal policy, recession, sustainability and security have all have contributed to a drive toward transformation. With that drive comes opportunity. We explore the top 10 risks and opportunities. Changing face of service delivery in local government The Local Government Chronicle, supported by Ernst & Young recently brought together Chief Executives from a range of local authorities to discuss how the sector can tackle uncertainty and upheaval. The discussion highlighted the current ‘messiness’ of local government service delivery, as familiar models are rapidly losing relevance, creating a shifting, uncertain landscape, but one not without opportunities for revisiting how services are best delivered to meet local priorities. Read more about the LGC Roundtable. Event: new delivery models for adult social care seminar Local authorities are faced with policy imperatives to reduce costs and divest directly provided adult social care services, while ensuring clients having greater choice and control over their care and support. What is the most applicable vehicle for Ernst & Young, along with Care & Health Solutions, recently ran a seminar to explore new and current delivery models for adult social care with an in-depth look at the local authority trading company (LATC). We will shortly be publishing highlights of this here. If you would like to know more about this in the interim, please email us. Can Councils Live Without the Formula Grant? In this report Can Councils live without the formula grant we describe problems with the current system and potential solutions, looking particularly at the use of business rates. The Rate Escape: Freeing local government to drive economic growth The balance of funding between central and local government is, arguably, the greatest challenge this government faces in achieving genuine decentralisation. Together with Localis, we are exploring central control of local finances. This report aims to show how an implementable but radical reform to allow local authorities to retain business rates at the local level will create significant new incentives to help drive the economy forward, as well as provide a platform for a full-scale localist shift in the near future. Maximizing value from privatizations A study based on interviews with governments, management and private equity investors across Europe from past privatisations over the last 15 years, to uncover leading practices (1.7M, March 2011) and lessons learnt. |
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