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Mike Thacker
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:10

null Death is easy. Local Government is hard

  This morning Brian Jarman told BBC’s Today programme that the data indicates 20,000 hospital deaths could have been avoided over the past ten years if we’d acted on what the data is telling us.  Death is easy to measure because even the bad hospitals have to record it and you don’t go into hospital with it, but you might go out with it. So we can identify where mortality rates... See more
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Mike Thacker
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:11

null Opening up local government transactions - Not just data

In some circles, the term “transparency” seems to have supplanted “open government” which might imply the objective is for government to go on doing what it is doing now but in a more transparent way.  That would be a pity because there is so much potential for improvement if people outside government can not only see what it is doing but also help do it better. The Government Digital... See more
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