The issue of winter service closures in the health service is steadily getting bigger and gathering momentum like a snowball rolling down a hillside. A minor injury unit at Stratton Community Hospital in Bude, Cornwall will be temporarily closed overnight. The Shropshire Star reports the A&E at troubled Telford and Wrekin hospital faces a temporary […]
Hospital trust? When are temporary changes temporary? Read More »
Public servants, be they local government officers, NHS Managers or departmental civil servants enter 2019 facing an even tighter set of legal rules affecting the Law of Consultation. Decision-makers similarly need to be conscious that judicial interventions to quash or postpone their actions are at an all-time high. In short, 2018 brought a range of
Three 2018 Court judgments that changed the Law of Consultation Read More »
While most of us were basking in the Mediterranean temperatures of this summer’s heatwave, stalwart NHS planners across the country had the extremes of a different season firmly in mind: Winter. The challenges winter surges in our hospitals are extensively and continuously documented in newsprint and online from the first signs of frost to and
NHS service change: Patient involvement duties and planning for winter Read More »
We live in extraordinary political times – so fluid that this article may be obsolete faster than anything else ever written by the Institute. However – right now – 7th December, there is an emerging awareness that our representative democracy has blundered into an impasse. A destructive stalemate where usually-closed minds are casting around for
Consultation as an alternative to a Second Referendum? Why it’s not the answer! Read More »
At the end of November, the TCPA published Planning 2020: the final report of the Raynsford Review of Planning in England. This in an incredibly comprehensive and significant assessment of the English planning system by former housing minister Nick Raynsford, and the product of thousands of responses, of which tCI was one (view our response
Some excellent recommendations, but will they change policy on consultation in planning? Read More »
The UK has long been a magnet for countries to send their brightest and best to learn about democratic principles and pubic services. Strange, given our current convulsions but our reputation for training civil servants and developing civil society remains high. And this is often thanks to relatively little-known organisations, some of which have worked
Consultation ideas … even in ex-Soviet Central Asia… Read More »
There is much to ponder about the High Court decision to reject Sefton Council’s legal challenge to plans for a new access road to the Port of Liverpool. The Council questioned Highways England’s decision to exclude the option of building a tunnel as part of the route. Both the route options which featured in a
The Sefton Tunnel Judicial Review: One-off; or the shape of things to come? Read More »
The Institute has been spoilt for choice this autumn. Our Law of Consultation course has already had to be significantly amended and updated to take account of the torrent of new judgments pouring out of the High Court. The second issue of Latest Law is an 18 minute video briefing that covers most of the new
Latest Law – version 2 – what’s covered Read More »
In April, we published an article entitled “Sporting ‘owners’ – to what extent do you consult the fans?”. It reported on a succession of disputes between famous football clubs and their big-time owners. We pointed out that as much as club owners think they can do what they like, it is far more important to ensure
Football League’s failure to consult the Clubs – a boot on the other foot? Read More »
Sadly, we have yet another tale of flawed engagement and consultation as the NHS seeks to implement cost-saving measures at a Community Hospital. This conclusion is not from the Consultation Institute. These are the findings of the authoritative and rigorous Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) which advises the Secretary of State for Health when Council Overview &
IRP strongly critical of bed closures at Rothbury Community Hospital Read More »
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