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This Is Just Beyond Belief. What An Unremitting Fiasco. We Need An Audit of the NEHRS Pronto!

June 7th, 2012 by davidmore
The following appeared today. Health minister Lawrence Springborg reveals cost of fixing QH payroll issue will top at least $1.2 billion by: Koren Helbig From: The Courier-Mail June 06, 2012 2:25PM THE cost of Queensland's disastrous health payroll system is set to top $1.2 billion by 2017. But Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has warned that estimate is a "bare-bones price" that does not include any contingency funding should anything go wrong. Contingency provisions for repairs could add an extra 30 per cent to the $1.253 billion cost. It also fails to include the impacts of Fringe Benefits Tax payable on wage overpayments, which could be as high as $110.4 million. Even more concerning, the Workbrain and SAP systems will no longer be supported from 2014-15 and the former Bligh government failed to set aside any cash for the needed upgrade or re-implementation. That cost has not yet even been quantified. The shocking cost is detailed in a wide-ranging...

This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
 
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