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One council in the north-east has found numerous benefits from co-locating services including running parents young child groups at its fire stations
The north of England seems to see more collaborative public services than the south. This is a great example from Northumberland.
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Patients in England, especially the poorest, have benefited from choice and competition according to LSE economist Zack Cooper
An interview with Dr Zack Cooper of the London School of Economics, on how he believes competition helps NHS patients – especially the poorest.
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Allowing consultants to order drugs remotely is saving lives and money, according the medical lead of the NHS Stroke Improvement Programme
This is a use of fairly straightforward IT, teleconferencing, that saves lives and money through making it much easier for consultants to decide which drug to prescribe victims in the three hours after a stroke takes place. Continue reading “Videoconference consultants boost emergency stroke care”
Damian Green has marked the end of the identity card scheme by feeding its drives into an industrial shredder in Essex
After years of debate, hours of a parliamentary time and millions of pounds, I saw minister Damian Green feeding some of the hard drives behind the ID cards system into an industrial shredder in Essex. It was certainly an unusual press trip – see images below.
Figures released by the government show large variations in the use of automatic numberplate recognition cameras by police forces