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Doing more with less in health care: a multi-method study of decommissioning in the English NHS

Irrespective of moral and political arguments, current fiscal restraints in the English National Health Service (NHS) make decommissioning apparently unavoidable. Decommissioning – that is the removal, relocation or replacement of treatments and services – is being pursued by health care planners in response to the need to balance budgets, but has also been advocated by exponents of evidence based medicine on quality grounds (Hurley, 2014; Malhotra et al, 2015).…

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Brexit and Devolution

Since the Brexit referendum the UK government has been criticised for failing to recognise the positions and concerns of the devolved governments.…

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Brexit and Race Equality Policies

With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies.  The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…

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Work enforcement in liberal democracies

This blog by Tania Raffass of Monash University, Australia is based upon her paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Social Policy which seeks to contribute to the normative debate concerning work enforcement in liberal democracies.…

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Could personalisation reduce re-offending?

Blog post written by Alex Fox, Chris Fox and Caroline Marsh based on an article recently published in Journal of Social Policy The criminal justice sector has never achieved rates of re-offending with which the public and policy makers are satisfied.…

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