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Is public science a public good?
Should we be worried about companies funding university science? Does it make for more innovation or is it poisoning science and blackening our ivory towers? Join us for a debate on the future of public science.We are delighted to have the following speakers Philip Moriarty, Professor of physics, University of Nottingham Ben Goldacre, Scientist and journalist Terence Kealey, Vice Chancellor University of Buckingham John Pethica, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory Ian...
from : jackstilgoe
3rd March 2008
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How far can individual budgets go?
Can the welfare state be revolutionised through the use of individual budgets? This transformation - making people participants in designing and delivering services – has already started in social care, where individual budgets are allowing people to take control of services they receive. This seminar will preview a major Demos report on participative public services, led by Charles Leadbeater, which will be formally launched at the Making Public Services Personal conference in January 2008.
from : jenlexmond
19th November 2007
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Efficiency and Local Government
If we want the public sector to be as slick and efficient as the private, we must accept that its top executives should be rewarded accordingly
from : williamhigham
13th November 2007
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Grey Majority vs. Ipod Generation
I was at Tory Conference yesterday speaking at a Fringe event organised by the Smith Institute & Reform, entitled 'Advancing Opportunity: the grey majority versus the ipod generation', looking at economic and social fairness between generations.
from : faizalfarook
2nd October 2007
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NHS Productivity
Opening the papers this morning, it looks like Derek Wanless has thrown the efficiency cat amongst the NHS pigeons. We already knew that a large proportion of extra NHS funding went on staff wages, yet according to Wanless we have seen little increase in productivity. Improvements in smoking cessation and increased life expectancy are being countered by increasingly poor lifestyles/obesity and rising health inequalities between rich and poor.According to NHS statistics total staffing (FTE) in...
from : faizalfarook
11th September 2007
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GP hours - Time for change?
According to the Times today Alan Johnson is set to challenge some of the terms of the GP contract by proposing that GP’s open surgery out of hours and on weekends. This has met with some criticism from the BMA, who argue that other professionals don’t have to work weekends, and that out of hours work would mean a reduction of normal hours service.There are genuine questions to be asked around how to shape our current model of GP care to best suit the healthcare requirements...
from : faizalfarook
10th September 2007
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Side effects of pay injection for GPs
Response letter to Guardian article, Aug 7th 07
from : faizalfarook
10th September 2007
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Making sense of hybrids
Tomorrow is a big day for science governance anoraks. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority are deciding (in public) whether to allow research on hybrid embryos. The novelty is that their decision comes after months of deliberation - some public, some private, in newspapers and in staged engagement experiments - among experts, policymakers and the public. For the last couple of years, we at Demos have been speaking to all sorts of organisations, including the HFEA, about how they...
from : jackstilgoe
4th September 2007
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Open Government? From 'need to know' to 'need to share'
from : charlieedwards
18th July 2007
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Nanodialogues
Depending who you ask, nanotechnology might be the Next Big Thing, the Next Asbestos or the Next GM. But before its impacts have been felt, nanotechnology has become a test case for a new sort of governance. It is an opportunity to reimagine the relationship between science and democracy.
from : markfuller
28th June 2007
