Federal Manager's Daily Report

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The GAO has said that over the last year the VA has made only partial or unappreciable progress toward carrying out its high-priority recommendations for personnel management.

In the partial progress category, the GAO credited the department with developing “an enterprise-wide performance management system that features department-wide training, covering employees under Title 5, Title 38, and Title 38-Hybrid.” VA also revised its performance management policy for those positions but has not yet put it in place, though, and until it does, it “may not be positioned to make meaningful distinctions in employee performance.”

Similarly, the GAO said the VA has been working to develop a department-wide succession plan for leadership and mission-critical occupations but has no estimated date for putting one into practice.

GAO further repeated two recommendations to which the VA has not agreed, putting in place a process to accurately count all physicians providing care at each medical center, including physicians who are not employed directly by the VA; and separating the EEO director’s office from personnel functions.

GAO also said that over the last year, the VA carried out eight of 28 priority recommendations but it cited outstanding recommendations in areas including veterans’ access to timely health care; the Community Care program providing veterans with care by outside providers in some circumstances; quality of care; allocation of available funding across the VA medical network; acquisition management; and more.

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