The September Newsletter: Births, Babies, Bathwater
September 6, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, Clients, commissioning, Complaint Handling, Consultation, Foundation Trusts, Management & Innovation, News posts, Newsletters, Public Involvement
A frenzy of procreation and parturition has characterised the MAC Partners’ and the nation’s life over the summer. I am exercising a grandfatherly role to Samuel who is 3 months old now, Mrs Cameron has someone extra to lug back from her hols, the new Government is experiencing a wave of...
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Freedom NHS – an Electric LINk for a Citizen Commissioner?
July 19, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, commissioning, Consultation, Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Public Involvement
If you can get past the alliterative battering of the title of their newsletter, the Delib Digital Democracy Digest (well you were warned), there is some interesting stuff about the Your Freedom site calling for citizens’ ideas – their reactions, uses etc. What it set off for me was whether...
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A long hot summer for user and citizen engagement?
June 29, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, commissioning, Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Schools, Social Care
The budget sparked a debate about postponing retirement and getting your pensions. Elder citizens and users who are involved in public engagement must be heard in any such debate about retirement ages and reform of the job market. They frequently form a majority of volunteers in citizen participant...
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The May Newsletter: A Spring Fever of Politics and Participation Possibilities
May 5, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, Management & Innovation, News posts, Newsletters, Organisational Innovation, Policy Governance, Policy Governance©, Public Involvement, Research, Schools, Social Care
Overcooked Rhubarb Rhetoric
Politicos have gone mad for it – so many of the election issues and debating points are about citizen engagement and involvement. We have characterised elections as the biggest citizen participation opportunity going although as we pointed out in our blog straight...
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March MAC Blog Round-up
March 2, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under News posts, Newsletters
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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Getting My Sh*t together and other belated New Year resolutions
February 1, 2010 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Public Involvement, Research
Faecal occult blood has a certain fashionably vampire ring about it. It gives the right air of spooky mystery so encouraging us all to get engaged and involved in our own health by sending in our samples for the bowel cancer screening programme. The instructions for collection are admirably brisk and...
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The November Newsletter
November 11, 2009 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Complaint Handling, News posts, Newsletters, Schools, Social Care
Dread Moment, Dead Time – the Roots of Laughter and the Prompt to Action
I was in the queue at the Post Office – two positions open for business; 12 people in the queue; having to pay £5 for special delivery because of strike. The message on the QTV? ‘The only real laughter comes from...
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Coming up to Easter Newsletter
March 18, 2009 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Clients, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Policy Governance, Public Involvement, Schools
No sooner had we posted our article about users reclaiming their own data for their own uses than Gordon Brown got in on the act with their publication on working together – see the quote below:-
Enabling patients to have their say
Patients can already view comparative information about a range...
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Yes we have some bananas – the first Partnership newsletter of 2009 starts on a fruity note
February 17, 2009 by Colin Adamson
Filed under News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Research
Caroline Millar has investigated the furrows and fields of consultation and reviews for us the new crop of acronyms – she is now on the look out for a decent one to describe the sort of people who make a positive contribution to public life: Sensible Undervalued Citizens, Keen, Empowered and...
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A Merry December Newsletter
December 5, 2008 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Clients, Local Involvement Network, News posts, Newsletters, NHS
LINKSLEARNING – hot off the press
Fresh on the main Moore Adamson Craig site, is the first article under our LINKsLEARNING banner – how we set about building the Wandworth LINk website from scratch and at speed. Check it out here: http://www.mooreadamsoncraig.co.uk/LINks.php and if you have...
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