Even when the Government claims to be ’empowering patients’ it manages to do it in a Whitehall-centric way.
Rate your doctor on-line? – another Whitehall-centric initiative
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Modernising Government Mk II: ‘Working Together’
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Back in 1999 ‘Modernising Government’ was finally published. After nearly two years gestation the general verdict was that it was indeed an elephant – huge, sprawling and ungainly. Everything including the kitchen-sink had been thrown into the lengthy, turgid and mind-numbingly boring document. Well, now we have Modernising Government II – or ‘Working Together: Public […]
Hard Times for Public Services
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
Whoever is in power at Westminster, public services are facing hard times over the next few years.
So What Would You Do?
By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:
In December I appeared as a witness before two Select Committees in the Westminster parliament: the Treasury Committee (TSC) which was responding to the government’s Pre-Budget Report; and the Public Administration Committee (PASC) which was investigating what standards of ‘good government’ might look like.