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Alphabetical listing

2008: the future for public services?
Acting now for tomorrow's Scotland: future scenarios 2012
Appreciative Inquiry: Positive psychology for organisational change
Appreciative Inquiry: Professional standards research (reprint from People Management Journal)
Balancing Community Interests
Beyond Good Intentions toolkit (for the DRC)
The Blair Centre
Budget holding lead professionals in Context – Three briefings (Jan 07) 314Kb PDF
Budget holding lead professionals pilot – Comparative report of different process models (Jan 07)2.3Mb PDF
Budget holding lead professionals support – General guidance on financial management and control to inform the development of local arrangements (Aug 06) 93Kb PDF
Care Collaborations in South Lanarkshire
Care Trusts: Opportunities, Problems and Actions
The Case for the Public Interest Company
Commissioning Change for Children – Understanding how the BHLP role can transform services (Dec 06)410Kb PDF
Community Justice: A US-UK Exchange
A Comparison of budget holding by lead professionals and the use of individual budgets
Co-production, social capital and service effectiveness
Creating the Climate: Health futures for Wales
Creativity in Public Services
Customer and community engagement: a briefing
Dental decay in children aged five and fifteen in England: a futures study
E2A: Understanding the transition from evidence to action in health and social care
Evaluating Leadership Development in the NHS
Evaluating the impact of the Disability Rights Commission (full report) (executive summary)
Every Child Matters briefing paper (Jan05)
Exploring the Future of Unpaid Carers in Scotland
Future policies for governance and public engagement (case studies 2006)
Getting Ahead of the Curve: exploring the future of community health care
The Glue that Binds: the public value of public services (PMF, 1996)
Going Forward with Good Governance
Good Governance Standard for Public Services
Hitting Local Targets: the public value of public services (PMF, 1997)
How to manage trauma (from People Management, July 2005)
'How far have we travelled towards a collaborative state?' [chapter in Demos publication]
Integrated Commissioning in Practice (excerpt from our book)
Integrating health and social care (short paper)
Introducing individual budgets and self-directed support
Involvement for real equality (report for the DRC)
Involving people in health
Joined Up Management
Joint Appointments Guide (England)
Joint Appointments Guide case studies and evaluation report
Joint Appointments Guide (Scotland)
Leadership: a personal view
Leadership: current thinking
Leadership for global health
Learning from the NHS in change
Levers, contracts and choice: the future of primary care
Local area agreements evaluation reports: see description
Local government efficiency - case studies and literature review
Local Solutions or Postcode Lotteries?
Lyons Inquiry - Public Deliberation Events
Making a Difference – Women in Public Appointments Research findings (PDF 511KB) Best Practice Guide (PDF 331KB)
Making Consultation Real: a toolkit for health services in Wales
Making the Connections: citizens mapping the big picture (PMF, 1998)
Managing Change - Managing Grief
Managing Childhood Asthma in Schools: full report and summary report
Managing for Social Cohesion
Managing for social result
Managing Projects to a Successful Conclusion
Mapping Approaches to Integrating PIs across LSPs: full report and annexes
Measuring Social Capital in Camden (from the book Sticking Together)
Mental Health Summit Report
Mentoring for successful secondments
Neighbourhood Renewal: the implications (report of workshops for LB Lewisham, 2004)
Netborough
Networks: Resolving the collateral issues associated with managed clinical networks
Optimising Value: the motivation of doctors and managers in the NHS
Organisational implications of the Children's Services Green Paper (2005)
Out of Hours?
Perfect Partners: Capturing the essence of successful partnership working in East Ayrshire
Pooled budgets: issues for BHLPs
Practical Benchmarking to Make a Difference
Progress on the Equality Standard for Local Government in London Councils
The Public Interest Company as a mechanism to improve service delivery
Realising the Potential Efficiency Gains from BHLPs (May 07) 59Kb PDF
Reforming prison dental services in England
Results Through Partnership
Review of the UK Youth Parliament
Rise and Shine
Rulers and Servants of the State
Seven principles for effective change in social justice and inclusion
Spaghetti disjunction? London governance (seminar report 2005)
Tackling Homelessness: learning from New York (seminar report, Feb04)
Towards Mainstreaming BHLP – Interim report with questions (Jan 07) 76Kb PDF
Towards Mainstreaming BHLP – Second interim report (May 07) 62Kb PDF
Using Values to Change Disability Services
What Makes a Public Service Public?
Whether and how to extend funds held by budget-holding lead professionals: progress report (Oct 07) 76Kb PDF
Who Cares, Wins: report on nursing -- available from the Burdett Trust
Whole System Events
Why Health: the economic case

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