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Think local, act global

It is not enough to assume that scaling back the state will allow local innovation to flourish. Achieving genuine localism relies on a different kind of support from the centre.

25.02.2010

Bringing home the innovation imperative

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.

25.11.2009

People-powered health

The NHS must be radically re-focused on doing more for less.

04.11.2009

Crisis and opportunity

One year on from the 'official' start of the financial crisis and the mainstream political (and media) debate is still a very narrow one: how to regulate the financial sector more tightly.

17.09.2009

A healthy dose of localism

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.

27.08.2009

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