Archives for January 25th, 2007

CHILDREN WANT LIMITS ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT THEM

Headlines, PublicNet: 25 January, 2007

CHILDREN WANT LIMITS ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT THEM

 

Children believe only those professionals who work with them, such as teachers or social workers, should have access to information from the Children’s Index. Youngsters who took part in a study published by the Commission for Social Care Inspection thought their family, friends, teachers, carers and police were most likely to keep them safe, but the children wanted to ensure they were safeguarded and said only those who really needed it should be able to access information about them.

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POLL FINDS NO ROLE FOR POLITICIANS IN NHS DECISIONS ON FUNDING TREATMENT

Headlines, PublicNet: 25 January, 2007

POLL FINDS NO ROLE FOR POLITICIANS IN NHS DECISIONS ON FUNDING TREATMENT

 

National and local politicians should not be involved in decisions about which treatments should be funded by the National Health Service, according to a new poll commissioned by the NHS Confederation. Only 9 per cent of people thought MPs should be part of the process and even fewer wanted local councillors to have a say in the decision making.

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DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES

Book News, PublicNet: 25 January, 2007

By Constance Helfat, Sydney Finkelstein, Will Mitchell, Margaret A Peteraf, Harbir Singh, David J Teece and Sydney G Winter.The book describes the authors’ understanding of strategic change. Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, organisations must develop the “dynamic capabilities” to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to modify its resource base in this way is vital.

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