Driving cars can be fun. The personal freedom, the wind in your hair and the stereo switched up to 11 while singing to Gary Numan.
No doubt that in years to come – probably with family and friends over a small glass of wine – someone will ask “Where were you when Gordon Brown left Number 10?”
Going forward into cash-strapped times, there will be increasing pressure to deliver better public services for less.
Yesterday, the team at Patient Opinion hosted mypublicservices, a conference to reflect on how the web is transforming public services and what more it could do in the future.
NESTA's call for radical innovation in public services found a new level of comfort among decision-makers in the NHS this month. As the thinking has evolved about how cuts in budgets could be met, the penny suddenly dropped.
Nowadays we want flexible, adaptive services that can respond to local demands... but with the assurance that national standards will still apply; we want an NHS guided by fairness, but understand the value of local provision.
Health is more than a question of institutional provision, it is also a social issue shaped by social conditions and collective behaviour
Making the transition towards environmental sustainability should be positioned as making a transition to a better life.
There are positive signs that the Government is moving forward on engaging with the importance of community action on climate change.
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