Archives for June 9th, 2005

WORKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

Book News, PublicNet: 9 June, 2005

By HelenSullivan and Chris SkelcherCollaboration between governments, business, and voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered. This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the theory, policy and practice of collaboration. Written by two leading authorities in the field the book explores the experience of collaboration in regeneration, health and other policy sectors, and assesses the consequences of the emergence of public-private partnerships contrasting the UK experience to that elsewhere in the world. The content includes: the collaborative agenda, collaboration on cross-cutting issues, collaboration across sectors, building capacity for collaboration and evaluating outcomes.

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LACK OF OFFICE SPACE ‘PUTS PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY AT RISK’

Headlines, PublicNet: 9 June, 2005

Hospital doctors fear patient confidentiality is being put at risk because key staff do not have adequate office space. The British Medical Association says of the 12,500 staff and associate specialist doctors working alongside consultants and junior doctors in hospitals, many have a large administrative workload but do not have their own offices.The staff have called for minimum standards of access to office space as a matter of urgency. Dr Elizabeth Bailey of the BMA’s Staff and Associate Specialists Committee told a conference that sensitive information about patients was being left in areas where it could be viewed because the doctors involved did not have adequate office space where documents could be kept.

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FIGURES SHOW FEW OPPOSED TO PRINCIPLE OF ROAD PRICING

Headlines, PublicNet: 9 June, 2005

Only 16 per cent of people are strongly opposed to the principle of charging drivers for using roads according to the results of a survey released today in advance of a speech on road pricing by the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling.The results, from a MORI survey for Detica, also show that while only 8 per cent of people think the roads are too congested, almost half support the principle of a road pricing scheme, if all the revenue raised is returned to motorists through lower road tax.

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