Drugs firm to refund cost if treatment fails
Jack Stilgoe comments on a drug for bone cancer which is to be provided by the NHS after its manufacturer promised to refund the cost of treatment in cases where it does not improve a patient's health.
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Collaboration is the key to better services
Labour has been good at creating consensus around goals, but its great failure has been a lack of agreement about how to reach them.
Mind the gap
Despite thirty years of legislation disadvantaged young women are yet to reap the rewards of gender equality in the workplace.
National spotlight on Cumbrian scheme to put people with learning disabilities in control
Researchers from the think-tank Demos are in Carlisle today to meet with some of the 250 service users from across Cumbria who have been using the In Control scheme to manage their own care and support services.
A future Glasgow built on the people’s imagination
Glasgow 2020 was a two-year project facilitated by the think-tank Demos which aimed to look at three things: Glasgow's future, cities generally and how we imagine the future. The aim was not to have an insular Glasgow conversation, but talk and swap ideas
50 ideas for Brown's Britain
Five leading think tanks of the left suggest ten-point plans for the Brown premiership
Can we really soup up our city with acronyms, jargon and gobbledygook? Probably not
HOW GALLING it was for Glasgow's civic leaderstospendperfectlygood council taxpayers' money on a report about the future of the city and last week be told conclusions they do not want to hear
Glasgow is not short of ‘mass imagination’
Glasgow is not short of ‘mass imagination’
Tongue-tied
Britain is becoming increasingly complacent about its mother tongue, claims a new report from the thinktank Demos. As You Like It, by Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell, argues that Britain cannot continue to rely on the cultural and economic benefit of hav
When dreams cross over into the realm of fantasy
There's only one team in Glasgow/One team in Glasgow/One team in Gla-a-a-sgow/There's only one team in Gla-a-a-sgow. Fellow foot soldiers in Partick Thistle's red and yellow army will readily recognise this somewhat monotonous ditty that rings out from th
Better design can challenge ‘disablism’
Our world of fiddly buttons and user-unfriendly gadgets is discriminating against disabled people, says new Demos report
Libraries can develop ‘creative reading’
Their contribution to helping young people develop creativity has been missed in the current library debate, says new Demos report
We are living in a ’society of small print’
Professionals and companies are becoming ‘responsibility averse’ in an attempt to protect reputation, warns leading risk management expert
Independent lives ‘lead to loneliness’
Social isolation is increasing in our fragmenting society with more people at risk of loneliness in the future, according to new report
Baby boomers try to relive their youth
The post-war generation is using wealth and leisure time to ‘have their time again’ and to postpone ageing, according to new report
Public debate needs to move 'upstream'
The government must start a public debate about nanotech now to avoid another anti-science backlash, according to a new report.
Ministers should appoint civil service chiefs
The cult of the ‘gifted generalist’ in the senior civil service is hampering public service reform, says new think tank report
Main political parties ‘facing oblivion’
Three Labour ministers debate loss of trust in politics and crisis in party membership at Demos fringe meeting in Brighton
Life skills key to tackling social exclusion and homelessness
Life skills key to tackling social exclusion and homelessness
Starter’s orders given on Olympic legacy
London should start now to secure legacy from 2012 bid