When is a mutual not a mutual? When it’s a public limited company
Circle Holdings Plc is a public limited company in law, and the media characterisation of Circle as a “mutual” is at best disingenious, at worst misleading. Mutual or public limited company? A Guardian...
View ArticleDoing Research on a Budget ? – the Health Voluntary Sector
This article looks at some of the ways in which health voluntary sector organisations currently use research, how new ways of providing support for this are developing. We raise issues with the...
View ArticleA Mixed Economy in the NHS
In Hackney the NHS funds more than 100 mental health organisations, ranging from support from Somali women to Sane, the national help-line and IRIS, an rape-support service. The NHS needs organisations...
View ArticleSo what of social enterprises and the NHS?
What of social enterprises and the NHS? Milton Friedman’s famous maxim goes as follows: “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities...
View ArticleReclaiming the “Big Society”
How the “Big Society” fits into “One Nation” politics. Many of us on the left worry that despite the obvious economic difficulties of many in our society, those in positions of economic power continue...
View ArticleSocial enterprises and the NHS: who benefits and what’s at stake?
As social enterprises for care get promoted in England, such that they literally get ‘bigger and bigger’, now’s a sensible time to task who exactly benefits and what’s at stake. Like personal budgets...
View ArticleWhat Future for Voluntary Services?
1st National Coalition for Independent Action Inquiry reports released NCIA has begun the release of 16 major reports as part of its Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services. Using the...
View ArticlePatient Power Can Make London Healthier
London has some significant health and care challenges and inequalities. The healthcare system continues to be poor at preventing ill-health and in diagnosing illness early, and too much care is...
View ArticleDoing Research on a Budget ? – the Health Voluntary Sector
This article looks at some of the ways in which health voluntary sector organisations currently use research, how new ways of providing support for this are developing. We raise issues with the...
View ArticleA Mixed Economy in the NHS
In Hackney the NHS funds more than 100 mental health organisations, ranging from support from Somali women to Sane, the national help-line and IRIS, an rape-support service. The NHS needs organisations...
View ArticleReclaiming the “Big Society”
How the “Big Society” fits into “One Nation” politics. Many of us on the left worry that despite the obvious economic difficulties of many in our society, those in positions of economic power continue...
View ArticleWhat Future for Voluntary Services?
1st National Coalition for Independent Action Inquiry reports released NCIA has begun the release of 16 major reports as part of its Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services. Using the...
View ArticlePatient Power Can Make London Healthier
London has some significant health and care challenges and inequalities. The healthcare system continues to be poor at preventing ill-health and in diagnosing illness early, and too much care is...
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