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Executive coaching has become a popular development leadership tool. To be effective, coaches need to reflect on the lessons from counselling research from the past four decades and on the emerging coaching research. Article reprinted with kind permission from The British Journal of Leadership in Public Services

This learning tool provides a brief introduction to the structure and organisation of the NHS, the regulatory frameworks within and outside it, and some of the hot topics and pressures that it faces.

The number of organisations and individuals offering coaching has expanded enormously in recent years. This report gives some practical advice on choosing the right coach for you or your organisation from the many available.

A majority of BHLP pilot sites conducted detailed local evaluations which build on and complement the work of the national evaluation team. The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of how different sites are conducting their evaluation, outline the challenges they face and explain how challenges are being addressed.

Report for Department for Communities and Local Government examining a number of aspects of local government efficiency, exploring opportunities for increasing efficiency savings as part of the process of preparing robust plans for Comprehensive Spending Review 2007.

Budget holding was introduced to enable a speedier, more personalised and more effective response to meeting additional needs. This response will be used to remodel the range of services provided. This paper focuses on the degree to which budget holding currently does, and potentially could, meet these objectives more efficiently than at present.