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tCI’s Rhion Jones honoured with AHCM lifetime achievement award

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Last night, Rhion Jones, Programme Director of the Institute, was awarded the Jonathan Street Lifetime Achievement Award at the Association of Healthcare Communications & Marketing (AHCM) for his longstanding contribution to healthcare communications. The AHCM is the primary independent network for people working in communications, public engagement and marketing for the NHS. Presenting the award, AHCM […]

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How much STP can you get for £325m over 3 years?

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I’m still head scratching over the significance of Philip Hammond’s £325m announcement for Sustainability & Transformation Plans in England. On the one hand, every little helps. On the other hand, the ‘Transformation’ part of the equation was always going to need lots of capital expenditure etc., and rumour holds that funding current NHS deficits has

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The influence of journalists in public consultations

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Late last week I was listening to an excellent Radio 4 show on the Morality of Fake News featuring guests including editors and journalists of different media outlets discussing the current state of journalism. One of its shocking conclusions was that journalism had abandoned the notion of objectivity many years ago. People nowadays are sharing headlines

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Institute comments on NHS England’s new patient care test for hospital bed closures

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Rhion Jones comments on NHS England’s new bed closure rules: “Simon Stevens has introduced 3 important new tests before hospital reconfigurations will be approved. This is in addition to the 4 tests introduced by Andrew Lansley in 2011 – which include the need for support from GPs, and for full public engagement. The implications will

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Court access on Environmental issues – UK still back-peddling

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Far away from the news headlines a BREXIT-like tussle is taking place as the British Government tries to escape its obligations on environmental law. It concerns the all-important right of citizens to public participation on major infrastructure projects. It derives from the 1998 Aarhus Convention to which the UK is one of 40 (check) signatories,

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Institute commentary on King’s Fund STP Implementation Report

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Whenever the King’s Fund publishes one of their Reports, people take note. It’s not just that the Radio Four TODAY programme always mentions it. Key NHS Managers, Health stakeholders and even Government Ministers take it seriously. So how will the Government react to this week’s detailed Report, entitled Delivering sustainability and transformation plans.Whilst being supportive

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The worst consultation question of 2017?

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At the Consultation Institute, we are familiar with thousands of public consultations and are frequently exasperated by the standard of survey and questionnaire design.  Some are perfectly acceptable, and where consultors are working with experienced professionals, we would expect a minimum level of proficiency that should satisfy our Quality Assurance standards. Too often, however, we

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Does politics damage consultation on health service changes?

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Local. Politicians. Back. NHS. Changes. They are five words you don’t often expect to see together. Bringing them together in a local newspaper headline would, in most areas, be an achievement of magical proportion. But that’s the call the King’s Fund is making with the publication of it’s 58-page report on delivering English NHS sustainability

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