An ABM centre of excellence will also be set up in the orthopaedic service for shoulder, feet and ankle joint surgery and will involve more than 2, 000 operations a year.
They're also looking over their shoulder at Japan's wildly popular i-mode service, whose 10 million users have access to around 5, 000 gaming and entertainment sites.
The government insists that the new streamlined state-run probation service must not be "constantly looking over the shoulder" of the contract providers.
The more we argue for higher pay based on the burdens of board service, the more confusion results as the public watches top business leaders aggressively vie to shoulder those purportedly onerous responsibilities.