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21/06/2021
Time to step up – 21 June 2021
The integrated care systems design framework, published last week, is the latest formal step along the path towards integrated care. The framework is a detailed document that needs to be fully digested and properly reflected on. But whatever detail it contains, we already know that it won’t contain all the answers.
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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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17/05/2021
Mental health awareness at work – 17 May 2021
We’ve all had to make a lot of adjustments throughout the pandemic. Today, as restrictions are further relaxed, a whole new raft of uncertainty begins. This understandably causes a lot of stress.
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10/05/2021
Going local, globally – 10 May 2021
As citizens across the UK visited the polling booths to vote in local elections last week, we shared the findings of an international research project from GGI. Carried out in partnership with universities in Leuven and St Louis, the study explored the local impact of the pandemic on health and social care integration across three regions of the UK, Belgium and the US.
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04/05/2021
The quantum leap – 4 May 2021
As the worlds of health and social care move towards the adoption of a new integrated model, we ask: is the scale of our ambition too limited? Are we aiming high enough? Perhaps now is one of those crucial times when it’s right to take the long view, remember our mission, muster our courage and take a quantum leap.
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26/04/2021
Sustaining life on Earth – 26 April 2021
Thursday 22 April was Earth Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about the environment and inspire people to save and protect it. We took the opportunity to look at the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals through a governance lens and ask what it will take to achieve them.
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