29 Mar 2012
| by Alex Aiken
The debates are done, the concessions made and the Health Bill has become law. Alongside...that the health legislation offers. The evidence, so far, is not good. At a local level the record of health service communications has been dreadful. One now- defunct PCT spent 1m researching public health issues ...
The start of April gives us a year to prepare for the new world of health which come into being ...
One year on from the election of a new government, public service communications is in the doldrums....working in public relations in government service locally and nationally. There are four areas where ...
services between local authorities and probably government departments. One press office should be able ...
authorities to deliver campaigns as the Department of Health and Department for Education are already seeking ...
02 Jun 2011
| by John Woodcock
Forget what I wrote the other week about Andrew Lansley's health reforms being a shambles - he...for the National Health Service. Or a nurse wondering what on earth the future will hold.
The prime minister seems unable to accept that his health reform problem is not a failure of presentation, but the fact ...
the curtains at the Department of Health's building in Whitehall.
Not every vote of confidence from ...
This week, a new era will start for public service communications. A new government which will face...frontline services can be protected during this period. Third show how locally and nationally government can ...
, health and council communicators dance around the notion of a single local public service. They like ...
Public service PR will have to change to meet this challenge. But rather than seeking to tackle ...
27 Jul 2011
| by Alex Aiken
services. But there are too many people who remain determined to defend their turf. The proposed national ...
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It s an example of the sort of shared service activity that should exemplify the age of austerity. And the summer ...
public service. We ve seen a number of senior PR staff leave their roles and the COI will close in March ...
17 Nov 2006
My colleagues and I were slightly offended by your headline 'Mental health NGOs seek sympathy...will think it
acceptable. While some journalists do report intelligently on mental health, the sad
truth is that they are in the minority. The media often portray mental
illness in a way that evokes fear and anxiety. One national ...
the journalist, yet he
obviously chose to ignore the truth. Andrew McCulloch, CEO, The Mental Health ...
03 Nov 2005
| by Richard Peel
Dwindling national newspaper sales, news websites, the arrival of the blog and 24-hour television...-depth coverage of serious issues. Take Health Service Journal, for example, which is prepared to take a full and informed look at the issues in the national health service. LGC, MJ and Public Finance do the same ...
of a splash in a national or a lead item on Radio 4's The Today programme.
But by and large it pays ...
13 Apr 2011
| by Dan Wood
though it can result in better health for local people and frees up funding for other services ...
communications consultant and member of the CIPR s Local Public Services Group Committee. The CIPR Health Medical and Local Public Services Groups are co-hosting an evening for local government and health ...
services. Without them, our nation s response to the bombings would have been much more limited. There is a question over the future of our public services as budgetary pressures bite hard. To my mind ...
that picked up the pieces. Our ambulance staff and doctors and nurses, our police and security services. Local ...
of websites all offering the same front door to local health services, or public health campaigns on smoking ...
time? Why not just buy those services in, once, and use the leverage of scale and reach to obtain best ...
might argue that Her Majesty s Stationery Office, the Property Services Agency, or even COI were once ...
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