links for 2010-07-17

• Publish government data
  Part of NCVO's #bigsociety evidence base analysis.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• Support organisations
  Part of NCVO's #bigsociety evidence base analysis.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• Transfer Power
  Part of NCVO's #bigsociety evidence base analysis.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• Encourage Participation
  Part of NCVO's #bigsociety evidence base analysis.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• Give communities more powers
  Part of NCVO's #bigsociety evidence base analysis.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• The Big Society – the evidence base
  Useful stuff from NCVO.
  (tags: bigsociety civilsociety socialenterprise charity funding government NCVO research)
• Patient choice: how patients choose and how providers respond – The King's Fund
  "The policy of offering patients a choice in where they receive hospital treatment was intended to create competition between providers, encouraging efficiency and responsiveness to patients’ preferences and ultimately to drive up the quality of care. So has the policy met those aims?"
  (tags: thinktanks choice policy politics thekingsfund health nhs reform)
• The NHS White Paper – Overall architecture of the reforms
  Start of an excellent series of blogposts on the #healthwhitepaper from Paul Corrigan, who knows one or two things about this sort of reform.
  (tags: nhs healthwhitepaper thinktanks policy politics health reform)
• A graduate tax would be a mistake
  "The future funding of higher education should not be held to ransom in order to rescue the Liberal Democrats from their own intellectual incoherence."
  (tags: blogs graduatetax highereducation university funding fees)
• Austerity drive will hand billions to private sector
  "Outsourcing firms are preparing for a bonanza of local authority contracts to provide everything from bin men to back office bureaucrats and have reported a doubling in the number of deals on offer this year. Private health companies are also expecting to earn billions of pounds from the planned overhaul of the NHS in which GPs would take over responsibility for spending £70bn."
  (tags: guardian news reform privatesector government localgovernment money outsourcing)
• Confusions & contradictions in the White Paper 'Equity And Excellence: Liberating the NHS'
  More on the #healthwhitepaper: "The document's flaws are in two main areas: those of Emmentalesque holes; and of biscuit contraception (the bits that are fucking crackers)."
  (tags: healthwhitepaper NHS reform government andrewlansley health policy politics)
• A dog’s breakfast or radical reform?
  Useful analysis from Civitas on the Health White Paper (via Patrick Butler).
  (tags: healthwhitepaper health nhs reform government andrewlansley civitas thinktanks)
• Is social care about to be swallowed up by health?
  Great stuff from David Brindle: "The decision to extend Nice's writ raises questions about the continued separate identity of social care. The sector has long pressed for the joining-up of health and social care – and the white paper seeks to promote this, particularly through the proposed new role for local government in respect of public health – but the ambition has been on the basis of equal partnership. Nice's planned move into social care, coming after the collapse last year of the Commission for Social Care Inspection into the Care Quality Commission, suggests that health is being seen very much as the senior partner in this relationship."
  (tags: guardian society health socialcare carers charity CSCI disability localgovernment publicsector)

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