Britain's potholed roads desperately need funding, says LGA
Britain’s roads could become unusable if there is more flooding or severe weather this year, highway leaders have warned as they call for extra government…
Shortlist announced in run up to City of Culture 2017
Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay are the final 4 cities in the running to be UK City of Culture 2017.
Political leadership key for health and social care transformation
Politicians must show real leadership and communicate better with patients if the radical transformation of hospital and secondary care is to be successful, the…
MoD must not challenge the human rights of UK troops abroad
The Supreme Court has ruled that while overseas, troops will recieve the same human rights that they are entitled to whilst at home, under the Human Rights Act…
Rapid bus travel is revolutionising transport in developing nations
How do we enable free movement around the world’s huge and ever-expanding cities whilst simultaneously protecting the environment? Clean energy expert Claudia…
Bankers must be jailed for reckless misconduct, says Banking Commission
A new law to send bankers to prison for “reckless misconduct” should be implemented, a commission has said in a major report outlining radical reforms…
Jobcentres have inaccurate measures of effectiveness, say PAC
Jobcentres must stop measuring success by the number of people who cease claiming job seekers benefits, say the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Loneliness - a health issue that Health & Wellbeing Boards must tackle
Despite isolation and loneliness being as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, Health and Wellbeing boards are not prioritising this issue, says a…
Patients should be at the heart of the health sector
We have to focus on the people that matter in the health sector, says the chief executive of a social enterprise which provides community health support in Liverpool.
Are the effects of climate change finally upon us?
Britain's summers are riddled with showers and covered in cloud - and today the UK's meteorologists have met to discuss whether these weather patterns are linked…
Clear and direct language is the benchmark in producing growth and delivering services, writes Malcolm Durham, founder of Wealthbeing.
Joe Tibbetts recalls his part in developing the National Curriculum and gets depressed by the prospects of making education relevant and appropriate.
Addressing the impact of rapid urbanisation on transportation has become an immense challenge, but one that Jakarta is tackling head-on, writes Claudia Florowski, Project Officer at the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).
Open conversations are crucial so that service providers can understand a council's wider objectives, propose innovative ways to meet them and save taxpayer's money, writes public services expert Jim Bligh.
Politicians must show real leadership and communicate better with patients if the radical transformation of hospital and secondary care is to be successful, the chief executive of Social Enterprise UK told The Information Daily.
Social equality will drive forward a sustainable ecological community, writes environmental scientist Paul Francis Bright as he describes his vision of a sustainable world.
After weeks of scrapping over responsibility for the out of hours care crisis, NHS England today announced a review to be led by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
The environmental third sector is growing but we should be concerned about its capacity to shape a sustainable future, writes Professor Graham Smith of the Third Sector Research Centre.
'The future of making is changing again, and cities and citizens will lead the way', says an expert of Human-Future interaction.
Bee numbers have seen dramatic decline all over the world and in the UK bee populations have fallen by 30% since 2007, writes British Labour MEP Glenis Willmott.
Despite isolation and loneliness being as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, Health and Wellbeing boards are not prioritising this issue, says a coalition of organisations.
Men are almost three times more likely to get oesophageal cancer than women in England, according to recent figures by Cancer Research UK.
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Britain’s roads could become unusable if there is more flooding or severe weather this year, highway leaders have warned as they call for extra government funding to pay for the pothole-littered carriageways.
Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay are the final 4 cities in the running to be UK City of Culture 2017.
Politicians must show real leadership and communicate better with patients if the radical transformation of secondary care is to be successful, Peter Holbrook, the chief executive of Social Enterprise UK explains.
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