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ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Risk-taking in social care provision can yield results, study finds

By Martin Ford | 27 March 2019

Councils have been urged to be more ‘courageous’ in their adult social care provision.

FINANCE

Making better discharge decisions needs a whole-system approach

By Dan Peters | 11 March 2019

Social care and the NHS should analyse Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) statistics on a system bas...

FINANCE

Shared values breed success

By Adrian Loades | 28 February 2019

Redbridge LBC is ranked number one in the iMPOWER adult social care productivity rankings. Cllr M...

HEALTH AND CARE INTEGRATION

An overly bold strategy

19 February 2019

How to read the minor Manx scandal involving an alleged ‘cut and paste’ job on an integrated care...

HEALTH

Edinburgh facing £30m health and care cuts

By Martin Ford | 11 February 2019

Health and social care services in Edinburgh would be ‘jeopardised’ by proposed funding shortfall...

PRIMARY CARE

Devolution is the key to delivering the NHS Long Term Plan

By Phil Hope | 07 February 2019

Now is the time for local government, combined authorities and mayors to work with the NHS, says ...

WHITEHALL

Health secretary seeking cross-party support for care funding

By Martin Ford | 30 January 2019

A range of funding options will be laid out in the adult social care Green Paper in a bid to find...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Corporate memory: A valuable and scarce resource

By Lawrence Conway | 30 January 2019

Short term planning seems to prevail at present, says Lawrence Conway. But he believes district c...

MANAGEMENT

A council's culture eats its strategies for breakfast, dinner and tea

By Donna Hall | 29 January 2019

Rip up all those wordy strategies that hardly anyone even reads. They just don’t work, says Donna...

SOCIAL CARE

The risk paradox

By Andy Begley | 23 January 2019

The conflict between ‘traditional’ public sector risk management and the pace required to deliver...

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