By Kathryn Ray, Maria Hudson, Verity Campbell-Barr and Isabel Shutes
Community involvement in local services is widely recognized as desirable, particularly if the services are to meet the real need.

By Jeremy Wight
Health, wellbeing and attainment are closely bound up with each other and all three have to be promoted at the same time.

Irene Lucas
This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association.

There is a steady flow of new drugs to treat cancer, but chemotherapy is a complicated business.

Collaborative Procurement, part of the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme is expected to deliver savings of £7.7 billion by 2013-14. Publicnet provides an overview of the Programme.

Schools have an important role to play in promoting the physical and mental health of children, but often they are held back by a lack of facilities.

Collaborative procurement of goods and services across all UK public bodies will only deliver the predicted £7.7 billion efficiency savings if the quality of management information can be raised to an acceptable level.

By Colin Thunhurst
Health visitors play a vital part in promoting health in the community, but their numbers have been falling.

Better property asset management has the potential to deliver efficiency savings greater than all the other strands of the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme put together.

Sweating the people assets is a well tried way of increasing efficiency and the public sector has many examples of how this can be done.