Key to choosing MAPS Healthroster is the proven capability to offer more than simple electronic rostering to NHS Trusts. Expected benefits from the solution include improved nurse rosters, patient safety, improved quality of life for nursing staff and more accurate payroll records.

Commenting on the announcement, Paul Scandrett, Manpower Software's Director of Healthcare commented: "We are delighted by this latest contract award. United Lincolnshire Hospitals is a Trust that provides services to a large geographical area and we look forward to helping the Trust achieve their goals. We have been particularly impressed with the work already undertaken by the Trust which will provide an excellent foundation for the project. Our NHS client base now totals over 150 Trusts, 53 of which have chosen MAPS Healthroster."

About Manpower Software

Manpower Software is the leading workforce optimisation software applications provider for world-wide organisations with large, multi-skilled workforces. With over 17 years' experience, they ensure customers can match operational demands with workforce supply. Using MAPS, Manpower Software's workforce optimisation software application, organisations can deploy the right people and right skills, to the right place at the right time. With UK headquarters in London, and its US base in Miami, Manpower Software provide services and support to an international customer base across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1991, Manpower Software plc is a British public company listed on the UK AIM stock market.

Please visit http://www.manpowersoftware.com for further information.

Manpower Software plc enquiries: Paul Scandrett - Director of Healthcare, Tel:
+44(0)20-7389-9500, pscandrett@manpowersoftware.com; Ciara Matthews - Corporate
Marketing Manager, Tel: +44(0)20-7389-9531, cmatthews@manpowersoftware.com

Key to choosing MAPS Healthroster is its proven capabilities along with a strong acute hospital NHS Trust user base across the UK. Expected benefits from the solution include improved nurse rosters, patient safety, improved quality of life for nursing staff and accurate payroll.

Commenting on the announcement, Paul Scandrett, Manpower Software's Director of Healthcare commented: "We are delighted to be working with the Trust following an extensive review of our capability that included an on-site Roster Assessment. The Trust joins a strong East of England user group and their input will further improve the focus on regional and local issues. This now brings the total number of MAPS Healthroster customers to 51 NHS Trusts in England and Wales."

About Manpower Software

Manpower Software is the leading workforce optimisation software applications provider for world-wide organisations with large, multi-skilled workforces. With over 17 years' experience, they ensure customers can match operational demands with workforce supply. Using MAPS, Manpower Software's workforce optimisation software application, organisations can deploy the right people and right skills, to the right place at the right time. With UK headquarters in London, and its US base in Miami, Manpower Software provide services and support to an international customer base across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1991, Manpower Software plc is a British public company listed on the UK AIM stock market.

Please visit http://www.manpowersoftware.com for further information.

Manpower Software plc enquiries: Paul Scandrett - Director of Healthcare, Tel:
+44(0)20-7389-9500, pscandrett@manpowersoftware.com; Ciara Matthews - Corporate
Marketing Manager, Tel: +44(0)20-7389-9531, cmatthews@manpowersoftware.com

A quarter of health visitors in England fear that 'another Victoria Climbie' could happen in their NHS trust, new research from Unite, the country's largest trade union, revealed today (Thursday, 18 September).

The survey by Unite/Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association of 829 health visitors in England revealed 25% thought the chances of a repetition of the fate of the eight-year old girl tortured to death by her great-aunt and her boyfriend happening in their NHS trust was 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely'.

Unite has been strongly campaigning against the swingeing cuts in the health visitor workforce in recent years, which according to the NHS's own workplace statistics, has seen 'a health visitor job being lost every 27 hours'.

Unite's National Officer for Health, Karen Reay said: 'These findings are a terrible indictment, which demonstrate that the health visiting profession is on the ropes. Families and communities will suffer as a result, which is completely the reverse of what the government's 'family-friendly' policies are intended to promote.'

'We are calling for ministers to instruct NHS trusts to implement a massive investment programme in health visiting so that government policies can come to fruition, and to restore the cuts in training budgets to guarantee the next generation of health visitors.'

Other findings include:

- More than 40% of health visitors are responsible for more than 500 children and nearly 20% for more than 1,000.

- Almost 70% of health visitors can't currently meet the needs of the most vulnerable children.

The Unite/CPHVA report comes out on the same day as one from Netmums, the UK's largest parenting website, which showed that 60% of the 6,000 mothers in its survey said they didn't see their health visitor enough during the first year of their child's life.

Unite/CPHVA's Lead Professional Officer for Strategy and Practice Development, Cheryll Adams said: 'It is no coincidence that two separate organisations have come to the same conclusion - that health visitors are crucially important to the future well-being of the UK's children. We call on the government to act now on these two reports.'

Notes to News Editors:

- Victoria Climbie died in 2000, aged eight, after being tortured by her great aunt and her boyfriend. This resulted in the Lord Laming inquiry

For further information and a copy of the full research, please ring: Cheryll
Adams, Lead Professional Officer, Strategy & Practice Development,
+44-(0)7712-678-281 (mobile); Karen Reay, National Officer, Health, Unite,
+44-(0)7798-531-004; David Fleming, National Officer, Health, Unite,
+44-(0)7798-531013; Shaun Noble Communications Officer, +44-(0)20-7420-8951
(direct line), +44-(0)7768-693-940 (mobile)

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SUBJECT: Notice of Intent to award a Sole Source Contract to the Barts and the London NHS Trust ROYALLONDON HOSPITAL for Assays Regarding Coagulation Function and Markers of Inflammation from 75 Trauma Patients early after admission.

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