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Tag Archives: Health
How’s the Big Society doing?
Two and a half years on from that ‘Invitation to Join the Government of Britain’, where is the Big Society? The centrepiece of the Conservatives 2010 Manifesto was the Big Society. Except it wasn’t. It was the centrepiece of the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Society
Tagged Change, Choice, Community, Control, Education, Government, Health, People, Public services, Reform, Society, State, Welfare
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How to be happy: marry, get a good job, buy a house. Who knew?
Today the ONS released statistics from its project to measure ‘National Wellbeing.’ Future historians are going to have fun with this archive: the narrative of the early 21st century will be peppered with statistics about what makes us feel satisfied with our lot. … Continue reading
Posted in Quality of Life
Tagged Community, Employment, Evidence, Health, Marriage, Purpose, Stability, Wellbeing, Work
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A mixed market triumph for public service provision
This week, private company Circle Healthcare won a 10 year contract worth £10bn to run the financially troubled Hichingbrooke hospital in Huntington, Cambridgeshire. Plenty of individual NHS services are already delivered by independent providers but this is the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Public Services
Tagged Health, Making a Difference, Mutuals, NHS, Outcomes, Public services
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Are the Tories playing with fire with their reform agenda?
David Cameron sees himself as a great reformer. He believes that his government can achieve great things, fix ‘Broken Britain’ (whatever that may mean) and restore the damage done after 13 years of Labour government. To an extent, he is … Continue reading
Why trusting people means more than just a referendum
Over the weekend, I kept hearing Conservatives saying, Labour will do anything for the working class except trust them in a referendum (or similar), I suspect largely based on Fraser Nelson’s very good piece in the Telegraph on Friday. The … Continue reading →