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Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - June 2012 | 21/06/12

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Column by David Noble which appeared in the June edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More

Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - April 2012 | 28/03/12

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Column by Will Davies which appeared in the April edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More

Finding the balance of fairness | 13/03/12

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The development of social policy requires navigating a minefield of competing interests and finding a balance to best meet the overall needs of the nation. ...Read More

Reflecting on Public Affairs | 27/02/12

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I recently had the privilege of speaking to students at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, who had invited me back to talk about my reflections on politics and lobbying since I graduated from there several years ago....Read More

The beginning of the end for the Health & Social Care Bill? | 10/02/12

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Later this year my younger brother will complete his degree in medicine. At the same time, in a wonderful moment of symmetry, our father will retire from the NHS after 35 years. ...Read More

Private v. Public in the NHS – isn’t it time the debate grew up? | 28/12/11

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Yesterday’s reports that a recently proposed amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill could see National Health Service foundation hospitals allowed to raise nearly half of their funding through private work have generated predictably stormy responses....Read More

NHS Commissioning Board emerges from the fog | 21/10/11

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With the NHS currently a political ‘hot potato’, and one of the most debated topics during conference season, the latest event from the Westminster Health Forum could not have been better timed. ...Read More

Independence Day: Striving for Independence in your old age | 06/07/11

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“We hold this truth to be self-evident, that the Dilnot Review appears to have come up with a set of recommendations that has political, third sector and industry support”....Read More