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OJ Shannon

"UK factories slump in July" - the future of Manufacturing in Britain?

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Premier League spending for the summer transfer window stands at £485m....silly
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on Tuesday, 02 August 2011 News 1 Comment
"UK factories slump in July" read a headline today. Factory output is reported to have slumped for the first time in two years, further dampening Bri
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OJ Shannon

Negativity Breeds Negativity; A Vicious But Reversible Cycle

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Premier League spending for the summer transfer window stands at £485m....silly
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on Thursday, 28 July 2011 Articles 1 Comment
Recently, there has been an inordinate amount of coverage of our bleak growth figures; 0.2% between April and June.Whilst this might be off track and
Tags: outlook, david cameron, government, output, media, UK, individual, outlooks, recession, recovery, business, nihilism, celtic tiger, economy, optimism, news, per quarter, GDP, economic growth, productivity, double-dip, growth
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Lily Steigman

Choice and the Swedish Model - the New NHS?

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on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Under attacks once more accusing him of privatising the NHS, David Cameron outlined 5 pledges, promising to protect the NHS. Among them was ensuring
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Lily Steigman

Nick Bashes Bill – Reforming the Reform?

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on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg threatens to veto the Health bill proposed by Lansley. His main grievance is Lansley’s plan to place all health
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Lily Steigman

Primary Power

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on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Articles 0 Comments
The involvement of non-GP clinicians in commissioning consortia was one of Nick Clegg’s 5 ‘non-negotiable’ demands in order to obta
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Lily Steigman

Competitive Care

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on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Competition forces GP practices to provide better care. Chris Pike, an economic adviser for the NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel, has shown that
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Lily Steigman

Re-Productivity is Key

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on Friday, 18 March 2011 Articles 0 Comments
The NHS must reverse its fall in productivity, continuously falling for 10 years now. The NHS budget has grown steadily, receiving a 70% increase i
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Lily Steigman

Frontline Backwards

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on Wednesday, 02 March 2011 Articles 0 Comments
A think tank is suggesting that local councils’ plans to save money by sharing back-office services, thus avoiding the loss of frontline
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Lily Steigman

Commissioning, Cooperation, Competition – Spoilt for Lack of Choice

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on Friday, 25 February 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Patient choice might be an illusion, or at any rate not as free as we were made to believe. Regulators have found that NHS commissioners have been li
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Lily Steigman

Private-Public Partnership - a Healthcare Success Story

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on Monday, 21 February 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Though their model would not yet be legal in the UK under current law, Sanitas, Bupa’s Spanish subsidiary, has achieved something worth noting.
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Lily Steigman

Acute Trusts Commissioned Into Losses

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on Friday, 18 February 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Commissioning targets set by the Department of Health to minimise ‘low priority treatments’ will leave 58 Acute Trusts with whole departm
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Susi Drummond Moray

UK charity-giving trends and the impact on Big Society funding

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on Thursday, 17 February 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Statistics show that over the last thirty years people have been giving the same amount of money to charity. This demonstrates that they commit to don
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Susi Drummond Moray

One civil servant to be responsible for overseeing all government contracts of goods and services with major suppliers

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on Thursday, 17 February 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Whitehall has announced that in its drive to ensure value for money, only one civil servant will be responsible for liaising with major suppliers to t
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Olivia

UK Bribery Act and Media industry's rejection of Big Society's free advertising

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on Thursday, 03 February 2011 Corporate Governance 1 Comment
Delay in Implementation of the Bribery Act – ‘not fit for purpose’ Foreign industrialised nations are becoming increasingly frustrated  by the UK’s d
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Olivia

MoD budget 2011 - £1billion a year MORE to meet targets and Apple faces fury from Chinese environmental groups

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on Monday, 31 January 2011 Articles 0 Comments
MoD cuts – you got £1billion in your back pocket Sir? Only a few months after the Strategic Defence and security review (SDSR) was published senior m
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Mark Merritt

Bankers bonuses, public/private partnerships, commodity price rises and NHS health issues. Another typical week in economic England.

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Innovation within the HR discipline proving an essential method of gaining compe
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on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 Articles 0 Comments
Time for the fat cats to slim down? That has been the push by government on the bonuses paid by UK banks. Now the new Barclays Chief Executive, Bob Di
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Olivia

Local Government Budget Cuts and Manager Upskilling for 2011

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on Friday, 17 December 2010 Articles 0 Comments
DIY Government: from centrally governed to localised services Following the spending review settlement earlier in the week, local government co
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Susi Drummond Moray

Management innovation and public services related news - 10th Nov 2010

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on Thursday, 11 November 2010 News 0 Comments
Management Innovation Further to building group Rok's collapse, construction companies are offering to take on its customers' contracts before the co
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Olivia

Public Sector Dependency

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on Thursday, 04 November 2010 Articles 0 Comments
Government's fiscal woes rock the private sector It seems that the repercussions of the Spending Review announcements will not only affect the public
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Susi Drummond Moray

Management innovation and public services news 20/10/10

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on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 News 0 Comments
News affecting the private sector Betfair is expected to increase the size of its London listing by at least 50%. Ofcom, the media regulator, has
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gentul said, Great article and I think the policies of Government will surley effect it in some ways. I too use t
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