Doctors are urging people to join a new campaign to limit the role of commercial companies in providing NHS care in England. From today the BMA’s ‘Look After Our NHS’ website is being revamped to allow members of the public to show their support.

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A national charity is warning that local councils risk undermining moves to give disabled people greater choice in housing and services because they do not give essential information to those who need it. Livability said almost nine out of ten disabled people had not heard about the Individual Budgets funding system that will affect about 1.75 million of them from next year.

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By Richard Broad

The greatest use of information across the public sector is to record what happened in the past. But business analytics opens up a whole range of possibilities for using the same information as a means to predict and prevent. The author argues for a culture change that values information as highly as people, property and pounds and uses it to look forwards as well as backwards.

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