The NHS reforms will bring radical changes to the way health and care services are delivered across the country. Andy Stuart sketches out the way change will effect the built environment. He highlights the impact this will have on architects, facility managers, local authorities and contractors, as well as others concerned with the built environment.
In her book Claire Diaz-Ortiz describes the most effective tactics for tapping into the power of Twitter as a real time information network. As Twitter’s head of corporate social innovation and philanthropy, she shares the same strategies she offers other organisations.
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The Work Programme is a new payment-for-results welfare-to-work scheme that was launched in June 2011. This document from the department for Work and Pensions describes how the Programme was designed to overcome the weaknesses of previous initiatives for getting people back to work.
The author, Jeffrey Gitomer, describes the 12.5 strengths of responsible, reliable, remarkable leaders that create results, rewards, and resilience.
What makes a leader relevant? It’s not their place of employment, job title, experience, or status in life it’s their resilience. The true measure of any leader is his or her ability to react based on past experience and gut feelings, respond in real time to current circumstances, and then to recover quickly and move on with new lessons learned.
Engagement with communities at the moment is only marginal to the organisation, funding, management and strategic control of universities. More should be done to promote engagement and make university knowledge readily accessible for the benefit of excluded communities. This is the main finding from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Current policy pressures on universities to focus on improving their research excellence and to widen participation make it hard for them to engage meaningfully with excluded communities. This reduces their benefits for excluded communities.
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The Government has revealed plans to turn Post Office Ltd into a mutual organisation. This would allow communities, subpostmasters and customers to have a say in how they are managed. There would be a major investment programme which would seek to make the Post Office the ‘Front Office for Government with a new commercial focus and a strong community purpose.
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Liverpool City Council is to use a new design concept to halve the cost of building schools. They will be built under a structure similar to a modern airport terminal building. This will reduce the cost of a traditional build by about half. The concept also offers more flexibility as the internal layout and even the entire use of the site can be changed in the future.
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