Niall Dickson, the Chief Executive of the health policy think-tank, the King’s Fund, is to chair a Commission that will look into how people can have a say in the way their local health services are run. The Commission has been set up by the Local Government Association, which hopes it will begin a debate on the issue. 

Staff in the National Health Service will this week get a chance to see and hear some of the world’s leading health experts through a special online broadcast. Keynote speeches from the international clinical summit to be held in London will be transmitted live online on Wednesday. 

This programme is now available to view on GovTV the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes how Bedfordshire police in partnership with T-Mobile have equipped front-line officers with Blackberry Smartphones, which provide a range of applications only previously available on a desktop PC or by contacting a colleague at the station on a police radio.