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Donna Hall

Donna Hall

Donna Hall CBE is chair of the New Local Government Network and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Articles by Donna Hall

Catching the money falling between the silos

By Donna Hall | 11 May 2025

The goal of radical place leadership is to embed and systematise relational working, and research...

Building a New Local

By Professor Donna Hall | 21 October 2020

NLGN has changed its name to New Local. Professor Donna Hall says the network will have the same ...

People matter more than places

By Donna Hall | 14 September 2020

Until we stop obsessing about the process of place and begin to reconnect meaningfully with peopl...

Riding the second wave

By Donna Hall | 10 August 2020

Donna Hall says local government has never been so loved as people realise the power of community...

Let's remake the state

By Donna Hall | 02 June 2020

The state is a centralised, broken mess, says Professor Donna Hall. Instead of getting the public...

The power of local systems to save lives

By Donna Hall | 21 May 2020

The money announced for testing, tracking and tracing is welcome, but it will be pretty thinly sp...

Designing our collective future normal

By Donna Hall | 29 April 2020

We have been given a 'precious liminal space' at the moment writes Donna Hall - and we need to '...

A powerful light at the end of the tunnel

By Donna Hall | 25 March 2020

These are the most challenging times most of us have lived through, says Donna Hall – and ‘we can...

The vitally important triangle

By Donna Hall | 19 February 2020

Donna Hall says the main role of the council chief executive is ‘always triangulation, every sin...

More weirdos wanted!

By Donna Hall | 15 January 2020

You don’t have to be brilliant at digital, algorithms or a weirdo to see that naked self-preserva...