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24 Nov 09

CUP - Making Policy Public - Making Policy Public

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21 Nov 09

Times Online - Eureka Zone - WBLG: Time to base public services on evidence

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patterns of violence he observed treating its victims in A&E could be used to map hotspots of crime, and his research has been used to inform targeted policing that has had a significant impact.

Professor Jonathan Shepherd says policy should be scientifically researched - Times Online

"All of the public services need to develop a research culture similar to that in medicine, where treatments must be tested for effectiveness and value before they are adopted."

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18 Nov 09

NESTA - Prevention and Cure: How the NHS can save £20 billion

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17 Nov 09

The Future of Health Care Is Social | Fast Company

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08 Nov 09

Unboxed - Digitally Tracking the Elderly to Help Prevent Falls - NYTimes.com

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20 Oct 09

Battle of Ideas 2009 | session: Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

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14 Oct 09

Technology Review: Blogs: Predictably Irrational: A Fictional historic view of the future

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this painful and expensive lesson caused businesses and policy makers to recognize three main lessons: 1) human beings have many irrational tendencies, fallibilities, and quirks; 2) we often have bad intuitions and a limited understanding of our irrational tendencies and; 3) if we want to create effective policies we shouldn’t rely on our intuitions for finding recommendations nor on the assumption that people behave rationally; instead, we should ground our recommendations in how people actually behave.
After a few years spent watching in awe as business productivity improved, government policymakers followed suit by implementing experiments with the Education-Forward Initiative (formerly No Child Left Behind). These experiments showed that basing teachers’ salaries on student performances had minor short-term benefits and caused substantial long-term damage on teacher and student motivation; that creating interest in education was more important than grades; and that shifting the curriculum focus from calculus to statistics and probability had a wonderful impact on students.
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- Between 2019 and 2025, experimental policy, which became a more established field, examined the simplification of the income tax (with huge social and tax benefits) and studied incentives that encouraged people to get routine medical exams (with tremendous long-term benefits).
- But given our realization of how little we truly understand ourselves and the systems we design, combined with an appreciation for the benefits of detailed experimental investigations and empiricism, we are trying to solve this important issue by setting up multiple different experimental programs. In some of these the levels of co-pay are low, in some medium and in some high. In some of these programs the focus is in specialists, while in others the focus on the family doctor, and some focus on treating patients while other focus on preventative care and education.

08 Oct 09

Harsanyi: The doers against the "thinkers" - The Denver Post

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27 Sep 09

Human-centered Design « Service Design Research

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UK Sunningdale Institute at the National School of Government (Engagement and Aspiration: Reconnecting Policy Making with Front Line Professionals

25 Sep 09

WholeSystemsGoPaper.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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pbr06_varney_review.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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20 Sep 09

Child welfare: The nanny state | The Economist

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Some kinds of spending on children do work, but many should be improved or scrapped. No country gets it all right, though some (like the Nordic ones) do better in general than others (notably, America). Government spending per child varies a lot, as do outcomes; but the correlation is not strong.

08 Sep 09

On systems, and what they do « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird

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14 Aug 09

Dean Kamen Quotes About Health Care Debate - Interview With Inventor Dean Kamen - Popular Mechanics

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30 Jul 09

Entitlements: Building a new relationship between citizens and services

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22 Jul 09

live|work: Haringey Borough Council

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Haringey Borough Council in North London faces a severe homelessness challenge. Over 5,000 households currently live in Temporary Accommodation, mainly in homes leased from private landlords. The Council wants to reduce this number by half by 2011.
Haringey also wants to improve the services it offers to people while they are in Temporary Accommodation, ensuring residents know about, understand and make use of the options available to them; including encouraging them to bid for permanent homes using the Council’s choice-based lettings service.
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- We facilitated workshops with the team that gave them a solid method and process for engaging residents and applying the insights they gained to create, test and define solutions to the housing issues outlined above. The team created over 100 ideas that were synthesised into four key concepts that were tested with stakeholders and presented to the Directorate.
- Haringey housing services are moving forward; engaging community groups and schools in housing awareness, developing a ‘housing life plan’ for their customers and a ‘points’ calculator on the housing website.
- For the future Haringey Council now have a group of twelve people who have tried and tested a service design approach and will be able to ensure that their services are more customer centred in future.

14 Jul 09

BBC NEWS | Health | 'Care insurance' planned for old

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Under the present English system anyone with a home or savings of £23,500 or more is not given state funding for a care home, or help from social services.
This means that thousands of pensioners each year have to sell their homes or use their savings to fund their long-term care, which critics say is unfair and unsustainable.
A range of payment options is likely to be set out, including deducting a single payment from the patient's estate after their death, or making several payments in advance during their working life.
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- Other possible options could be a co-payment system, where the state pays for the first chunk of care, then the rest is means tested; or a social care tax, working in the same way as national insurance.
- "Needing care is random, some people need it and others don't because they die in a sort of much shorter period of time, and what people are beginning to understand is that we should share those risks out."