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New customer contact centre set to enhance Ipswich council services

New customer contact centre set to enhance Ipswich council services  23rd February 2010 - Communities in Ipswich are set to benefit from significant long-term improvement to their public services following the Ipswich Borough Council's decision to route all public enquiries though ... read more

Date - 23/02/2010
Category - Public Sector News

Huntingdonshire District Council's contact centre successfully retains prestigious Charter Mark Standard

Huntingdonshire District Council's contact centre successfully retains prestigious Charter Mark Standard  11th January 2010 - Huntingdonshire District Council's contact centre successfully retained its prestigious Charter Mark Standard after its annual review following its acc ... read more

Date - 11/01/2010
Category - Public Sector News

Citizen services in Melton Borough Council improve in record time

Citizen services in Melton Borough Council improve in record time  16th December 2009 - A partnership between Melton Borough Council and Northgate Public Services has led to the rapid improvement of services for local citizens, at a time when hard pressed local authorities are faced w ... read more

Date - 16/12/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Wellingborough invests in radical improvements to its front line services

Wellingborough invests in radical improvements to its front line services  10th December 2009 - Over 75,000 citizens in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, are set to benefit from radically improved front line services thanks to a new initiative from their local council and Northgate Pu ... read more

Date - 10/12/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals estimate 30% DNA reduction and £1million saving

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals estimate 30% DNA reduction and £1million saving December 4th 2009 - Telephonetics VIP, the speech automation specialist, has helped Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to improve their DNA rate. The Trust provides over one million appointmen ... read more

Date - 04/12/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Richmond Council expands its customer service centre with focus on service excellence

Richmond Council expands its customer service centre with focus on service excellence Richmond Council expands its customer service centre with focus on service excellence  5th October 2009 - The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has launched a new customer service quality initiative focused on improving service across all its customer 'touch points' (i.e. p ... read more

Date - 05/10/2009
Category - Public Sector News

New customer service centre boosts service quality for Tristar Homes

New customer service centre boosts service quality for Tristar Homes New customer service centre boosts service quality for Tristar Homes  Tristar Homes, a not-for-profit company that carries out the day-to-day management and maintenance of Stockton Borough Council's housing stock, has improved customer service efficiency and is answering a higher volu ... read more

Date - 25/09/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Corby Council cuts costs and improves customer service with new VOIP network

Corby Council cuts costs and improves customer service with new VOIP network  Corby Borough Council has deployed a new voice and LAN infrastructure from specialist telecoms services company Indigo Telecom Group. The upgrade will help the Council deliver more advanced comms functionalities ... read more

Date - 23/09/2009
Category - Public Sector News

NHS Direct: Mystery shopping exercise helps NHS Direct deliver an outstanding customer experience

NHS Direct: Mystery shopping exercise helps NHS Direct deliver an outstanding customer experience  NHS Direct has taken part in the UK's biggest ever call centre benchmarking exercise to find out what its patients and the public think of the service and to understand ways of improving ... read more

Date - 09/09/2009
Category - Public Sector News

North Bristol NHS Trust is transforming patient care through use of Alcatel-Lucent's advanced communications solution

North Bristol NHS Trust is transforming patient care through use of Alcatel-Lucent's advanced communications solution  Alcatel-Lucent announced that North Bristol NHS Trust - one of the largest National Health Service Trusts in England - is deploying Alcatel-Lucent solutions to overha ... read more

Date - 07/09/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Oxford City Council implements joint Lagan and NDL solution

Oxford City Council implements joint Lagan and NDL solution  Oxford City Council and its 151,000 citizens have benefited from a new partnership between government software supplier Lagan and integration specialist NDL. Capitalising on the complementary solutions provided by these two ... read more

Date - 20/08/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Redditch Borough Council wins 'Contact Centre Technology' award for SmartPoint at the 2009 Good Communications Awards

Redditch Borough Council wins 'Contact Centre Technology' award for SmartPoint at the 2009 Good Communications Awards  Redditch Borough Council has won the prestigious 'Contact Centre Technology Award' for its use of SmartPoint at this year's Good Communication Awards ... read more

Date - 27/07/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Basildon District Council chooses new helpdesk IT to meet service level targets

Basildon District Council chooses new helpdesk IT to meet service level targets Basildon District Council chooses new helpdesk IT to meet service level targets  FrontRange Solutions, the developer of business software for mid-sized and distributed enterprises, today announced Basildon District Council has purchased 18 licenses of its HEAT 9 helpdesk solution, along w ... read more

Date - 24/07/2009
Category - Public Sector News

Hillingdon Council is Council of the Year

Hillingdon Council is Council of the Year  July 14th 2009 - The London Borough of Hillingdon has won four prestigious national awards at the Good Communications Awards 2008, including the top award of Local Authority of the Year. Hillingdon's Contact Centre won the Contact Cent ... read more

Date - 14/07/2009
Category - Public Sector News

New healthcare number announced

New healthcare number announced  July 14th 2009 - Ofcom published proposals to enable the Department of Health to introduce a new single memorable phone number - 111 - to make it easier for patients to access non-emergency healthcare in their local area. Every year Ofcom allocates ... read more

Date - 14/07/2009
Category - Public Sector News