Building Healthier Communities: The Case for Investing in Public Health
Explore how targeted, community-based public health strategies can improve lives, reduce NHS pressure, and deliver cost savings for local authorities.
Whose role is it anyway?
28/11/2013 Dan Corry looks at the challenges faed locally and nationlly as the roles and responsibilities of citizens and the state and market blur. |
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Austerity woes
30/08/2011 The cuts agenda could put at risk the work any decent council should be most about: creating cohesion and economic prosperity at the heart of our communities, says Dan Corry. |
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The search for financial consensus
27/07/2011 Localising business rates could just institutionalise a two-tier system with affluent councils breaking away from their more deprived cousins, says Dan Corry. |
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On the cutting edge
21/06/2011 Spending reductions, not fancy ideas, are likely to drive the debate about future health reform, suggests Dan Corry. |
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Devolution plus
24/05/2011 If Scotland is to be given devolved tax powers, why not give similar powers to our big city-regions, asks Dan Corry |
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Don’t fuel the machine
09/05/2011 This time, of course, it may be different, but all too often, incoming governments feel the need to introduce public service reform White Papers, complains Dan Corry |
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Measuring up to progress
30/03/2011 Payment by results, outcome-based contracts or social impact bonds all need to be more than the latest ‘must haves’ for policy wonks and public service providers, if they are going to work effectively, says Dan Corry |
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Mind your language
03/03/2011 The language of politics has shifted, and in local government, valued activities are in danger of being brushed aside by the latest fad and phrase, says Dan Corry |
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How to bounce back?
04/02/2011 There is no one-size-fits-all approach to reinvigorate the moribund UK economy, says Dan Corry |
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Localism is dead – long live localism
14/12/2010 The Government has failed to grasp the nettle of localism and there is a real danger that new localism will be perceived as just another excuse for cuts, says Dan Corry |
