Andreas Whittam Smith writes today in the Independent about the nature of future government interventions in local communities and how they contribute to the Big Society agenda. His article is…
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The BBC is reporting that NICE, the advisory body for the health service, is holding a public consultation over whether the NHS in England and Wales should offer financial incentives…
I’ve just read an interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker regarding the depth of connection within social networks. Apart from some interesting comments on the differences between…
The Government was this week reported as setting up a more powerful Nudge Team which builds on the work of the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Team. This is of course…
A friend recently emailed me a link to StreetBank which describes itself as “a site that helps you share and borrow things from your neighbours“. The site explains: “Communities that…
I recently contributed comments to a blog posting about the role of the public sector in the Big Society debate. I was responding to the author’s comment where he said,…
The role of information in a health context is likely to expand even further over the next few years, with the recent Health White Paper referring to an “information revolution”….
One of the things TCC have stressed in recent years is that if you are communicating to the general public, an unsegmented message increasingly means you reach some people, but…
Councils and other service providers tend to make assumptions about how their residents want to engage and how to interpret the feedback or lack of feedback they get from them….
There is an increasing debate about the various types of behaviour change that one can now use. Should one Nudge, Think or Steer, or look at a wider mix of…