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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up Fastest after London are: the North East with 3.6Mbps, the North West with 3.4Mbps and the East Midlands' 3.3Mbps. Next most sluggish is Wales at 2.6Mbps, then the South West and Scotland, both on 2.9Mbps. [06 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News Fastest after London are: the North East (3.6Mbps), the North West (3.4Mbps) and the East Midlands (3.3Mbps) - suggesting there is a rural vs urban split based on ADSL speed. Next most sluggish is Wales (2.6Mbps), then the South West (2.9Mbps) and... [04 Jun 2008]
Brits clocking up £25bn in unpaid overtime
News The only regions where numbers fell were the East Midlands, where 57,000 fewer staff did free hard graft, and the North West and Merseyside, where numbers dropped by 41,000. The regions where fewest staff worked unpaid overtime were Northern... [04 Jan 2008]
Revealed: UK's IT job hotspots
News New IT jobs by region, according to ReThink Recruitment& London - 38.6 per cent& South East - 23.1 per cent& North West - 8.2 per cent& South West - 7.5 per cent& Yorkshire and Humberside - 4.9 per cent& West... [14 Aug 2007]
DoH in £20m CSC outsourcing extension
News CSC has the £1bn contract for the North West and Midlands region and last year took over £2bn-worth of contracts for the East and North East regions after Accenture pulled out. The UK's Department of Health (DoH) has agreed a £20m extension to an... [30 Mar 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News The NHS said that on the same day contracts were signed between CSC and the Department of Health for the delivery of "new and improved" IT services for the NHS in the East and North East, together with the restatement of the contract to provide... [11 Jan 2007]
Accenture pulls out of £12.4bn NHS IT project
News Accenture was awarded the two contracts to be the local service provider (LSP) for the Connecting for Health (CfH) programme in the East and North East regions back in 2003 but will now hand over the work to CSC, which is already an LSP for the... [28 Sep 2006]
2.6 million home offices in the UK
News The East Midlands, North East, Northern Ireland and Wales fall well below the UK average. Homeworking is gaining momentum - workers from households in the East, South East and South West of England are more likely to work from home than those in... [29 Aug 2006]
Orange closes UK call centre, recruits in India
News One call centre in Peterlee, County Durham, is being closed, with 900 staff being offered employment at two other locations in the North East. A further 100 staff in Solihull, West Midlands are also being offered the option to work in the... [01 Aug 2006]
SMEs miss R&D tax breaks
News Less than 10 per cent of the businesses questioned in the Midlands are applying for tax relief, with only one-third of those in the North East and South West doing so. Small businesses are missing out on millions of pounds of tax relief designed to... [11 Jul 2006]
Revealed: Best places for IT jobs in the UK
News North East - 1.4 per cent East Midlands - 4.2 per cent The third ranking region - the North West - is home to just 6.6 per cent of new jobs. North West - 6.6 per cent West Midlands - 5 per cent Two-thirds of all new IT jobs are created in London... [05 Jul 2006]
NHS IT delays cost Accenture $450m
News CfH also said that CSC, the prime contractor for NHS IT systems in the North West and the West Midlands, has already developed a plan for the delivery of iSoft software. Accenture is the prime contractor for the North East and Eastern regions in... [31 Mar 2006]
Bluesocket Case Study: Good Hope Hospital
White Paper Good Hope is a large hospital situated in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, serving a population covering north east Birmingham, areas of Walsall, as well as south east Staffordshire. When the hospital was looking for a flexible and secure... [21 Feb 2006]
More money for high-tech road pricing
News Bristol City Council, Bath and North East Council, North Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council West Midlands conurbation Seven local authorities are sharing £7m to explore ways to tackle local congestion and help develop government... [29 Nov 2005]
Teenagers dream of long hours and a job in IT
News Richard Branson is the ideal role model - closely followed by respondents' own parents - and regionally Greater Manchester is the most ambitious area of the country, followed by the North-West and the East Midlands, according to the survey. [05 Apr 2004]
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