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Can an A-ha moment encourage member blogging?
No I’m not talking about the 80’s Norwegian band.  But the moment when members of a community start to believe that you do not need to be an expert to write a blog. A number of...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  04 Sept 2014
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Public Health England's Spend and Outcome Tool (SPOT) for local authorities
Public Health England has published a tool which gives local authorities an overview of spend and outcomes across key areas of business. The spend and outcome tool (SPOT) gives local...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  03 Sept 2014
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GSK’s IMPACT Awards - deadline for applications, 5pm on 19th September
GSK’s IMPACT Awards reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. The awards have been running since 1997 and are designed to recognise and reward charities that are...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  03 Sept 2014
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Regional events - Transfer of public health commissioning responsibilities for 0 to 5-year-olds
Transfer of public health commissioning responsibilities for 0 to 5-year-olds to local government: regional roadshows during September and October 2014. On the 1st October 2015 the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  03 Sept 2014
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Consultation on refreshing the NHS Outcomes Framework 2015-2016
Closing date - 12th September 2014. The Department of Health are consulting on refreshing the NHS Outcomes Framework for 2015-16. This consultation seeks views on how the NHS outcomes...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  03 Sept 2014
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Are you ‘a people’?
I was struck by a blog I read recently asking, ‘Am I not a people?’ The (very interesting) blog was asking whether civil servants can substitute themselves for ‘real people’ in the...
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Adrian Barker
Last updated:  01 Sept 2014
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Getting the message right
Corporate communications have assumed a more elevated status in the public sector since the onset of austerity. Budget cuts, service reductions and closure of hospitals have resulted in a lot of...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Sept 2014
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Early Years High Impact Areas
Six Early Years High Impact Area documents have been launched by the Department of Health. The documents, including a summary, identify six areas where health visitors have the most impact on...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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Resources to support reduction in unintentional injuries to children and young people
Public Health England (PHE) supported by the Child Accident Prevention Trust, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, the LGA and the Association of Directors of Children's Services has...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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Homeless Health Project
The majority of people experiencing homelessness struggle to live well and often, sadly, do not live long. The average life expectancy of a person who is sleeping rough is 47 years – 30 years...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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Article - How social care staff in surgeries are easing the burden on GPs
Guardian.com article on how tackling underlying social problems can benefit both doctors and patients. The fallout from public sector spending cuts and subsequent pressures on daily life have...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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All Together Now: Making integration happen
The LGA and NHS Confederation have outlined their shared ambition for health and social care integration in a new report All Together Now: Making integration happen. The report will be used to...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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Comparing Apples with Oranges? How to Make Better Use of Evidence from the Voluntary and Community Sector
This briefing, aimed primarily at members of health and wellbeing boards, but relevant to both statutory and voluntary and community sector (VCS) partners, gives an overview of the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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What About Youth? survey launching towards the end of September
Following a successful trial earlier in the year, the survey What About YOUth?, funded by the Department of Health, is to be launched towards the end of September 2014. A key feature of What...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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LGA Event: Making every contact count, London 2nd October 2014
Making every contact count (MECC) is an approach to health information and improvement that has been adopted by many public sector bodies. This conference will look at good practice and discuss...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Aug 2014
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Are you stuck for content ideas for your Knowledge Hub group?
Just come across this great infographic from Socious regarding content generation. Quiet often a group starts up and uploads all its content in one go.  Members visit and download the...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  20 Aug 2014
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Are we designing in project failure?
It has  been suggested that more and more large projects are failing and that we maybe designing in project failure by mistake. How do we change this approach? How do we improve or...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  18 Aug 2014
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What are the tasks of facilitating an online group?
Time is a finite resource for anyone facilitating a group, whether it's an online community, project group or document store.  Our research, drawn from observations on Knowledge Hub and the...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  01 May 2025
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Adult Social Care Efficiency Tool launched by the Department of Health
The Department of Health have launched the Adult Social Care Efficiency Tool. The Adult Social Care Efficiency Tool enables councils to compare themselves with similar councils, or ‘statistical...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  07 Aug 2014
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LGA looking for a Data Analyst to support the Health and Care Programme
The LGA are looking to recruit a Data Analyst to provide support for the Health and Care Programme team and the local government sector through delivering research, data and analysis. If you...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  06 Aug 2014
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Benchmarking of local metrics in LG Inform: Q1 upload now open
Benchmarking of local metrics in LG Inform: Q1 upload now open   LG Inform is the free data and benchmarking service from the Local Government Association. In addition to the thousands of...
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Alexandra Marshall
Last updated:  06 Aug 2014
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Last date for submission – 8th August - Protecting Health and Care Information, DH data sharing consultation
A reminder that the Department of Health data sharing consultation closes this Friday 8th August. This consultation sets out proposals for new regulations to place strong controls around...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  06 Aug 2014
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Using a Knowledge Marketplace and Ideas factory to generate community activities.
I’ve used a Knowledge Management technique called a Marketplace to help at the start of building communities in the past. Using two simple questions. What they want from the community ...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  06 Aug 2014
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Hypocrisy and senior management
You won't find many chief executives who will admit to hypocrisy but you will find plenty of their staff who accuse them of it. So it's interesting that  in the recently published top 100...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Aug 2014
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Health Needs Audit toolkit from Homeless Link
Research published in July 2014 by Homeless Link shows that the proportion of homeless people in England reporting some form of physical and mental health problem is at least double that of...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  04 Aug 2014
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Using social media to grow your community
We recently ran a discussion in the Online Facilitators' Community on KHub about using social media to grow your group. Dimple Rathod helpfully summarised the main points. Anymore tips to add? ...
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Sarah Jennings
Last updated:  04 Aug 2014
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BBC sports test - nice use of infographics
Take the test designed by Loughborough University sport scientists to find out which sport you are best suited to. Take 30 seconds to dash through the 13 quick questions in the sports quiz...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  01 Aug 2014
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British Heart Foundation action on junk food marketing to children
Parents’ efforts to help their children eat healthily are being undermined by sophisticated promotions for unhealthy foods on TV and online – these adverts are exploiting loopholes in advertising...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  01 Aug 2014
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The retail model in the public sector
The problems experienced by Tesco and the response of the board has a lot of parallels with NHS Trusts and Local Authorities. This isn’t surprising since the public sector has been encouraged to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Aug 2014
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LGA are looking for a Programme Manager for Health & Care Informatics
Closing date, 25th August 2014 (by 5pm). This post is at Grade 7 (£62,659 - £70,781 per annum (incl. London Weighting)) for a fixed term initially to 31 March 2015. The LGA are looking to...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  01 Aug 2014
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Why this obsession with leadership?
First we had leaders make the difference, success is based on strong leadership. Then it was no more heroes because the charismatic individual’s insistence on uncritical loyalty can lead you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 Jul 2014
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Why don’t public bodies co-operate more on community engagement?
Everyone agrees it makes sense for public bodies to co-ordinate their community engagement.  So why don’t they (usually)?   I managed to get our Health and Wellbeing Board to agree a...
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Adrian Barker
Last updated:  28 Jul 2014
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DH Survey on the publication of comparative provider data – closing date Friday 1st August 2014
Do you collect, present or use health and care data to assess how your organisation is doing? Or are you interested in viewing health and care data to understand how the NHS are delivering...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  28 Jul 2014
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UK Health Forum launches AlcoholHealthLink to connect researchers and policy makers
The UK Health Forum has launched AlcoholHealthLink for researchers and policy makers. AlcoholHealthLink is a closed self contained network, to encourage and support collaboration between...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  28 Jul 2014
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Restaurant and pub chains urged to sign up to salt reduction targets to combat heart attack and stroke
The Local Government Association (LGA) points out that only one restaurant group and a single fast-food chain have committed to new Department of Health (DoH) voluntary targets – launched almost...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  28 Jul 2014
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Whatever happened to Community Cohesion?
It was replaced by "radicalisation". The concern shifted from maintaining good relations with are neighbours to stopping some of them becoming terrorists. But this does not mean the responsibility...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Jul 2014
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What to do if offered a "Brush- by".
  You know if you have been given the brush off but should you welcome the opportunity for a "Brush-by" ? In the US they are no longer restricted to official meetings,informal meetings and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Jul 2014
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Children's Society report explores the practice of live birth data sharing between local authorities and children’s centres
The Children's Society have published a report, The Right Start, which explores the practice of live birth data sharing between local authorities, health services and children’s centres.  ...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  21 Jul 2014
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Open data – sharing outputs and expertise between councils
We can now start to see the benefits of the emerging infrastructure for councils to share details of their published open data.   Take a look at the screen shot below from esd’s open data...
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Mike Thacker
Last updated:  12 Aug 2014
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The gap between the flash and the bang
  The bright idea is followed by, nothing. To misquote president Bill Clinton being a senior manager is like being in charge of a cemetery you have a lot of bodies underneath you but you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Jul 2014
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