First the Government announced that local councils might be awarded ‘beacon’ status for excellent performance – now the term has moved into the health service.The NHS is to invest ten million pounds a year into identifying and promoting a hundred beacon local health services to reward and spread best practice in the NHS. The very best in each NHS region will gain annual national recognition through a new reward for excellence: the Nye Bevan Award.

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Gill RinglandScenario planning is a strategic management tool that helps organisations create their own futures. In this book readers learn about the power of the process to dramatically magnify a manager’s ability to zero in on the most important emerging trends and develop sets of likely future scenarios from them. They also learn how to fashion dynamic strategies to take advantage of whichever future emerges.

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