Bio-Banked

An exercise in civic reciprocity in central Croydon where the NHS BioBank project is camped in one of those half-empty blocks that give Croydon its shades of the 60s and 70s ambiance. The place was filled with 40-69 year old citizens happy to give up almost three hours of their time to be measured, assessed... 
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National Voices – Campaign To Get Users’ Voices Heard

Neurological Commissioning Support (NCS) is one of the successful organisations identified by National Voices – a new(ish) pressure group to get users’ voices heard. The NCS project focus is to “ensure that people with long-term neurological conditions are at the heart of service commissioning”.... 
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Dear Mr Brown – Nurses taking the pledge won’t fix the Staffordshire problem

Has the Prime Minister’s “front line” commission report on nursing and midwifery delivered a damp squib?  I rather think so, if Recommendation 1 is anything to go by.  It states: “Nurses and midwives must renew their pledge to society and service users to tackle unacceptable variations in... 
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No progress without parents

Booked your holiday yet? If you have children in school you may want to cancel your plans and set aside some quality time to be involved in a quick consultation this August.  This week the Conservative Party announced that if they get into power after the next election they will pass legislation which... 
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Will John Lewis-style partnerships work in the public sector?

Andrew McMillan is the best placed person I know to comment on the John Lewis ethic from the inside because until recently as he mentions in his piece, he worked for them and has seen the reality from the inside. The question we asked him was ‘can this approach really be transferred to the public... 
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March MAC Blog Round-up

The ways things are organised was the February theme of the month with MAC Partners writing about organisations which have failed and those which are held up to us as model enterprises. Can we associate a particular form of organisation or the way that it is governed with a higher probability of success?... 
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