by Rachel Angarano | Feb 18, 2021 | Adult social care, Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Tried and tested behavioural science techniques help public sector organisations to embed a behavioural focus in their response to the coronavirus crisis. Over the past ten months, we have witnessed something close to a renaissance in behavioural science thinking and...
by James Swaffield | Feb 2, 2021 | Adult social care, Health, Local government transformation
Reflections from our recent roundtable with ADASS and colleagues from Royal Colleges In 1995, Francis Fukuyama wrote an influential book called Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity. His central argument was that a nation’s wellbeing was...
by Michael Kitts | Jan 25, 2021 | Adult social care, Health
In November 2020, NHSE published a document entitled ‘Next Steps to Building Strong and Effective Integrated Care systems across England’. Its focus was on making ICS intentions, aims and vision a reality, something I absolutely applaud. The LGA and CIPFA have...
by George Boyd | Jan 22, 2021 | Adult social care, Health, Local government transformation
Sharon Brennan’s recent article in the HSJ (‘Treasury ‘the barrier’ as full hospitals desperate to discharge patients to social care’) reported that the Treasury was unwilling to pay for the additional insurance costs that would enable care homes to take on thousands...
by Joel Trounce | Jan 7, 2021 | Adult social care
We must utilise people’s strengths and the assets available in the community to manage demand effectively. There is sometimes an assumption that demand management is a simply a way of diverting people away from local authority funded services in order to save money....
by Geoff Hinkins | Dec 15, 2020 | Adult social care
Our recent North-West Learning Collaborative masterclass highlighted the need to look beyond structure and process We were delighted to be asked by the North-West Learning Collaborative* to host a masterclass on Inspiring Behavioural Change: how systems can better...
