by Rachel Smyth | Nov 21, 2020 | Blogs
An old Irish quip is that if you want to get to (wherever) I would not start from here. Still in the middle of this epidemic we must ask the question how can we build not a new normal but a better normal, or in the famous advice to Obama in the middle of the 2008...
by Rachel Smyth | Jun 22, 2020 | Blogs
Benjamin Franklin famously claimed that the only two certainties in life were death and taxes. For those of us involved in public service the modern version of that statement might be there is never enough money to meet all our aspirations, and most of whatever money...
by Rachel Smyth | May 6, 2020 | Blogs
How local government responds after the immediate crisis will define not just local government, but the places and people local government serves. ObR predicts perhaps a 15% fall in GDP, this with millions out of work. This will impact places differently, so we need...
by Rachel Smyth | Apr 7, 2020 | Blogs
Just to recognise how unparalleled are the times we are living through consider when else would the Secretary of State for Health announce that he was thinking he might ban exercise! Media coverage has been pretty extensive. However, it is worth considering just who...
by Rachel Smyth | Dec 19, 2019 | News
In November a delegation of senior leaders drawn from across the NHS and its arms-length bodies travelled to Denmark for an exploration of the Danish Health System as part of the Leadership Centre’s 2025 Leaders Programme. The excursion combined a series of visits to...
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