Governor induction programme for Foundation Trusts

The M-A-C Partnership offers a fully-managed induction programme for your new governors (you may be calling them something different). Our induction training package has a fixed price but can be tailored to your environment and the needs and wishes of your governors. Our focus in the last two years has... 
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Customer Insight – Investor Foresight: Market Making in Healthcare

A recent blog by the estimable health economist at the Kings Fund Dr John Appleby on PCTs and managing markets pointed out that in the recent World Class Commissioning external assessments, most PCTs scored poorly on competencies around stimulating the market and market management.  That rings true... 
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‘Real Patient and Public Power’ based on prising the lock off comparative data in the NHS

Access and Understand Data Knowledge is power – but only if you know how to use it. MAC champions the ownership of data by the service users who generate it so they can make decisions and choices based on their and others’ experiences. This means they must not only have access but also the... 
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Citizens, Consumers and the NHS

Christine Hogg’s Citizens, Consumers and the NHS: capturing voices (Palgrave MacMillan, November 2008; 224p; £19.99  ) provides a thorough narrative of where the Community Health Councils (CHCs) came from  in 1974, what they achieved over 30 years and why they passed from the patient and public... 
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Policy Governance© – new project , new book

Policy Governance© taken up by another NHS body More evidence comes of the spread of Policy Governance © with news of a new PG implementation project within a NHS Trust. I am working (writes Val Moore) with John Bruce whose experience of implementing PG in a NHS context was the topic of a past blog... 
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Whose schools are they anyway?

“Text cloud” for this post below, created by www.wordle.net Whose service? There has been a whole lot of very interesting debate over the last few years about who the health service belongs to but what I’d really like to know is, who does the education service belongs to?  I recently... 
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Mugged in Soho by MND

“Text cloud” for this post below, created by www.wordle.net Last week I went to the Curzon Soho to see Sarah’s Story, an awareness raising cinema advert produced for the MND Association. It runs for 90 seconds. Believe me, you don’t want it to be longer; your awareness couldn’t... 
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Don’t slip up on those new acronyms

I can’t exactly remember why Billy Connolly took to wearing these splendid Big Banana Boots in the nineteen seventies.  I do remember my parents going to see him and telling me how unsuitable he was for nice young girls (which is what I was then, more or less).  All I know is that I can’t... 
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New Health Bill moves towards individual commissioning budgets

The Health Bill 2009  introduced into Parliament on 15 January boosts the personalisation and choice agendas by enabling direct payments for healthcare to people in England.  There are already 60,000 people receiving direct payments for social care.  This is a big step towards the objective of individualised... 
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The 2009 future for consultation – better organised for action and value

I am sure I am not the only person working in the field of public involvement who has been wondering what the impact of our current financial crisis will be on the work which organisations have been doing to engage with public and with public service users.  So it was interesting to attend a round table... 
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