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HEALTH

Heading into uncharted territory

05 August 2010

The relationship between local government and GPs suggested in the health White Paper is taking u...

HEALTH

We must be at the heart of this reform

05 August 2010

The LGA has long been lobbying for a greater role for councils in public health, so the White Pap...

WHITEHALL

Back to the future

05 August 2010

Bringing back Victorian municipal entrepreneurship could provide a solution to our present crisis...

Improving lives through sharing – and reducing costs

05 August 2010

Alex Fox and Jane Hurt consider the under-developed Shared Lives programme.

HEALTH

Planning for the Final

05 August 2010

Research suggests most people would prefer to die at home rather than in a hospital.

WHITEHALL

A quart in a pint pot

05 August 2010

Andrew Kerr is now head of one of the new unitaries in the South West and is relishing the challe...

WHITEHALL

Let the sector assess its own performance

05 August 2010

A new study from the New Local Government Network now argues for area-wide assessments, overseen ...

WHITEHALL

The three key elements of sector-led assessment

05 August 2010

In welcoming the NLGN study David Parsons says there are three key elements of a sector-led asses...

WHITEHALL

The Big Society busybodies

05 August 2010

The danger behind Big Society is that it will merely replace top-down bureaucracy with a new tier...

WHITEHALL

Probe to question voting rights of non-English MPs

05 August 2010

Whitehall officials are poised to launch a commission to review the contentious ‘West Lothian que...