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14/06/2021
Time to care - 14 June 2021
Last week was Carers Week, an annual campaign to highlight the challenges facing the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers and recognise the extraordinary contribution they make. This year’s theme was to make caring visible and valued.
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07/06/2021
Catching up - 7 June 2021
As the grip of lockdown gradually relaxes, one of the great joys we’re all experiencing is catching up with the friends and family members we haven’t been allowed to embrace for months. This simplest of pleasures has been greatly missed and the universal relief at its return is palpable.
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24/05/2021
The tools of governance - 24 May 2021
Good governance isn’t necessarily more governance. This month we’ve gone back to first principles to focus on the basics and in this week’s illuminations we look at some of the building blocks of good governance.
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19/04/2021
Creation of the new NHS – 19 April 2021
The big changes ahead in health and social care have far-reaching implications, with new responsibilities for many, a fresh outlook on how healthcare can and should be delivered, and a revised approach to regulation.
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06/04/2021
Time to flip the script – 6 April 2021
From future models of government to specific advice on the year ahead for NHS leaders, we see many opportunities to think afresh about trusted systems and old cultures. These are timely reflections. Good Friday is traditionally the day on which we launch our annual Festival of Governance, which this year is all about exploring new ways of doing things.
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29/03/2021
Doing things differently – 29 March 2021
On Thursday GGI hosted a book launch. Jaideep Prabhu’s How should a government be? nicely picks up from the debate that followed our annual lecture last year on how we can do democracy differently.
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15/03/2021
Relentless time – 22 March 2021
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the first national lockdown in the UK. It brings the curtain down on the most extraordinary year in most of our lifetimes – a year in which it felt as though time stood still.
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