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More than forty commissioning support services proposed
Jan 20, 2012 by: David Williams, Local Government Chronicle, Health Services Journal
The 50 primary care trust clusters could set up as many as 41 commissioning support services nationwide, an investigation by LGC’s sister title Health Service Journal has reve...
Burstow: No crisis in care funding
Jan 18, 2012 by: Dan Drillsma-Milgrom, Local Government Chronicle
Care minister Paul Burstow has insisted there is no crisis in the funding of social care....
No 'structural merger' of health and social care, MPs told
Jan 17, 2012 by: Steve Ford, Local Government Chronicle, Health Service Journal
There will be no government drive to merge health and social care organisations across the country, health minister Paul Burstow has told MPs....
Business urges more economic development powers for councils
Jan 16, 2012 by: Mark Smulian, Local Government Chronicle
Business leaders have challenged local government’s commitment to investment and compared it poorly to civic leadership in the rest of Europe, LGA chair Sir Merrick Cockell ha...
Shifting from acute to primary and community care
by Paul Carter, Local Government Chronicle
How can we find the funding for infrastructure in 2012?
by Alex Thomson, Localis (in The Guardian, Local Government Network)
Is the Localism Act a lawyers' charter?
by Michael Burton, The MJ
Local government's role in healthcare
by Alex Thomson, Localis (in The Guardian, Healthcare Network)
A New Era for Council Housing?
Posted in Planning, Housing and Economic Development
The Big Green Society
Posted in Reform and Personalisation of Public Services
Power to the People
Posted in Planning, Housing and Economic Development
Commission Impossible?
Posted in Reform and Personalisation of Public Services
Redesigning Local Services Conference
[Mar 29, 2012]
‘Blue Labour and the Politics of Place’
[Feb 9, 2012]
Roundtable: The Future of the Coalition Government’s Education Policy
[Jan 24, 2012]
Roundtable: What makes shared management initiatives work
[Jan 4, 2012]
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