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Health and social care

May 2018

  • planting a seedling tree<br>green tree Regeneration

    Unprecedented level of joint working is transforming lives of older people

    An alliance involving Croydon’s council, NHS and charities is to develop its work after demonstrating early benefits

January 2018

  • Brexit<br>File photo dated 11/05/16 of the Vote Leave campaign bus, as the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, will warn that the Brexit campaign’s pledge that leaving the European Union would mean more money for the health service must be honoured or voters will lose trust in politics. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday November 8, 2017. Mr Stevens will cite the Leave campaign’s controversial claim that Brexit will bring £350 million back under British control to spend on the NHS to argue for more funding for the health service. See PA story HEALTH NHS. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Switch Brexit billions into AI to transform UK health and social care

    Colin Cram
    Switching £175m a week - half the Brexiteers’ promised savings - into technology could transform UK public services

April 2017

  • Theresa May speaks during Prime Minister's Questions

    How to tackle stress and make public service workers more resilient

  • Police officers lined up

    Who works where in the UK public sector: the statistics

January 2017

  • Members of the Public Leaders Network 2017 editorial advisory board.

    The 2017 Public Leaders editorial advisory board

    Leaders from the public, private and voluntary sectors, with deep expertise across all public services, comprise our editorial board in 2017

July 2016

  • inside a hospital

    Has government learned the vital lessons of public service failures?

    Terrible examples like Mid Staffs, Rotherham and Doncaster can give clear pointers on how to respond when public services go wrong
  • NHS nurse

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    As a mental health nurse, people don't realise I'm more soldier than nurse

    Anonymous
    They imagine me making up beds and giving out medication. They don’t see the steel behind my eyes
  • Man walks past government buildings in Whitehall as David Cameron holds his first cabinet meeting since Brexit on June 27, 2016 in London, England.

    Integration: is there a better way?
    Despite financial fears, Brexit could offer opportunities for councils

    The EU referendum has created a policy vacuum in Whitehall, giving local leaders a chance to push for health and social care integration

June 2016

  • Unison living wage protestors holding a banner outside of the University of East Anglia

    Public sector workers are reaching breaking point, but we won't stop fighting

    Dave Prentis
  • A volunteer from the Kissing it Better charity reads poems to a resident of a retirement home in Stratford upon Avon who has dementia

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    My NHS dementia unit is about to close and I fear for my patients

    Devon Hammond

May 2016

  • NHS staff change a hospital bed between patients at St. Mary's Hospital, Southampton.

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    I'm a bed manager in mental health – and the scapegoat of the NHS

    Anonymous
    Frequently expected to produce a bed out of thin air for patients in crisis, every day I wonder how much longer this can go on

February 2016

  • Happisburgh beach and eroding cliffs on the Norfolk

    The cost of cuts
    Austerity has hit disabled people hardest – now they're fighting back

    Mary O'Hara
  • Save NHS bursaries student march

    Blogging students
    Why I'm protesting alongside healthcare students to save the NHS

January 2016

  • beachy head

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    I wish I could do more to protect your loved ones in mental health crisis

    Anonymous
  • Emergency medical dispatcher dealing with 999 calls

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    You would never know I'm crying after I answer your 999 call

    Anonymous

December 2015

  • Children walk in the street  in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

    Three crucial questions about plans to take over failing children's services

    Government’s new proposals to intervene in failing council services should draw on lessons learned in the NHS and academies

November 2015

  • Pollution blankets Mexico city against a backdrop of the Ixtcihuatl volcano 18 January 2002.

    Health in cities
    The cities that are cleaning up their act

    We asked a panel of experts how communities from Mexico City to Belfast are becoming healthier and more sustainable

September 2015

  • Police help homeless people in London

    I do much more than police work. But if I don’t do it, who will?

    Nathan Constable
    I had a busy shift this week, with all the extra work police have taken on in recent decades. With so much inspection, I’m too scared to do less

July 2015

  • Image of a wooden clad round modern building.

    Healthcare professionals network: practice
    'We wouldn’t go back into the NHS': Plymouth's pioneering social enterprise

  • Porthleven Harbour Cornwall

    To survive the next 10 years the NHS must become a local health service

    Andrew Harrop
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