By Sarah Harvey, Alasdair Liddell and Laurie McMahonHealth reform has long been dogged by the law of unintended consequences. Not only is the service complex, making it difficult to identify appropriate levers of change, but also each part of the system is connected to other parts.
An inquiry has been launched in Scotland into how police officers are managed and deployed. The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee will look into a number of issues around the effective use of police resources, including the extra one thousand officers proposed by the Scottish Government.
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Politicians are being warned today that Britain’s prosperity depends on realistic transport planning rather than hoping there will be a big move to public transport enforced by punitive pricing. Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, will tell the Liberal Democrat Autumn conference that Britain remains car-dependent.
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