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Gaming industry cautious about challenging Fixed Odds Betting consultation

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Back in the autumn, the Government launched a consultation on the future of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) following political pressure at Westminster. Backbenchers had argued that these machines – which enable punters to lose £100 every couple of minutes – were causing untold social harm and personal tragedies. In the Radio Clip we featured […]

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Oxfordshire CCG successfully defends the Judicial Review, but the High Court judgment may give them further headaches

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An Institute commentary on Cherwell District Council v Oxfordshire CCG [2017] EWHC 3349 (Admin) Just before the holidays, the long-awaited Judicial Review into proposed changes to maternity services in the Horton Hospital, Banbury was decided. The Court rejected arguments that the consultation was unfair, but the judgment handed down by Mr Justice Mostyn may not

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Book review – Public consultation and Community Involvement in Planning A Twenty-First Century Guide

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Public consultation and Community Involvement in Planning A Twenty-First Century Guide Penny Norton and Martin Hughes Routledge 2017 This is a much-needed book! Partly, the Planning profession needs it because it has not always been as eager to encourage public consultation as our law-makers have intended … And partly because a wide variety of stakeholders

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NHS service closures – does temporary means temporary?

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NHS service closures – does temporary means temporary? There isn’t much that fires a local debate on health services than a service provider using emergency measures to withdraw a service. Debate is rarely more heated when the closure affects cherished services like A&E or wards at local community hospitals. Chatter around hospital trusts using these

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Preserving the role of NHS non-executive and lay members in the era of STPs*

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Background A document released by NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Clinical Commissioners has raised important questions about the evolving role of lay directors and members of NHS organisations. See ‘Supporting change in your NHS’ . It reports on the views of over 200 non-executive directors (NEDS) and lay members at events hosted this autumn. Many

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Father Christmas accused of a sham consultation

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Take care when seeking changes to time-honoured traditions. It began as an innocuous proposal – similar to many in the world of public services. Father Christmas merely announced that henceforth, his organisation would accept online requests from children all over the world, but phase out traditional hard-copy correspondence. How could they have anticipated that this

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Accountable Care Organisations – where is public engagement?

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We hear that NHS England faces a tough dialogue with the Treasury post-Budget and will, most likely get the go-ahead for its latest plan – to set up Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs). For some, it is a rational response to the failure of the Lansley structural reorganisation – a logical extension to the 44 STPs

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