scholarly journals Public–private sector interactions and the demand for supplementary health insurance in the United Kingdom

Health Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 840-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anikó Bíró ◽  
Mark Hellowell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Supplementary Health Insurance

Constructing health consumers: Private health insurance discourses in Australia and the United Kingdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Harley ◽  
Karen Willis ◽  
Jonathan Gabe ◽  
Stephanie Doris Short ◽  
Fran Collyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Private Health Insurance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health Consumers

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 2231-2252
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped e-business as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

scholarly journals A criação da Rede Brasil-Reino Unido em Medicina & Ciência da Dança como um lugar potencial de relações entre pesquisas poético-criacionais.

Ouvirouver ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
VALERIA Maria Chaves FIGUEIREDO ◽  
Adriano Bittar ◽  
Alexandre Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Training Performance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Education Psychology ◽  
The University ◽  
Dance Medicine ◽  
Medicine Education

A Medicina e Ciência da Dança (MCD) é uma área que se desenvolve há mais de 20 anos através da colaboração entre profissionais da dança, medicina, educação, psicologia, nutrição, dentre outros. O objetivo é promover o bem-estar e saúde dos dançarinos através do desenvolvimento de pesquisas e serviços nas diversas vertentes, desde a saúde, treinamento, performance, bem-estar, educação e a cena artística. No Reino Unido, a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, líder na área da MCD, em parceria com o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE – NIDMS, formado por esta instituição e o BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN E UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, iniciou em 2016, amplo diálogo com a UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO e UFRGS, além de outros interessados da iniciativa privada e pessoas físicas, no sentido de estruturar uma cooperação internacional, constituindo assim, a REDE BRASIL-REINO UNIDO EM MCD. O objetivo central é desenvolver pesquisas e serviços colaborativos durante o período de 15 anos, estabelecendo caminhos transdisciplinares para o sucesso da parceria Dança, Ciência e Saúde. ABSTRACT Dance Medicine & Science (DMS) is a field of study that has developed globally over the last 20 years through the collaboration of different professionals, from dance, medicine, education, psychology, nutrition, among others. The goal is to promote the well-being and health of dancers through the development of research and services in various aspects, from health, training, performance, well-being and education. In the United Kingdom, the UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, a leader in the DMS field, in partnership with the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE - NIDMS, formed by this university and BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN AND UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, started, in 2016, a broad dialogue with UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO and UFRGS, as well as with other stakeholders from the private sector and individuals, in order to create an international cooperation, through the BRAZIL-UNITED KINGDOM DMS NETWORK. The main objective is to develop research and collaborative services during a 15-year period, establishing transdisciplinary ways for the advancement of the partnership Dance, Science and Health. KEY WORDS: Network, dance, medicine, science.

scholarly journals Private Higher Education in the United Kingdom: Myths and Realities

2014 ◽  
pp. 11-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Woofield
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Private Providers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Complex Part ◽  
The Government ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Private providers are becoming more visible in an increasingly heterogeneous UK higher education landscape. Policy changes in England have stimulated rapid enrolment growth in the private sector, and the government is currently facing the challenge of regulating and ensuring quality in this dynamic and complex part of the HE sector in the absence appropriate primary legislation. Currently very little is known about the UK’s ‘alternative’ HE providers and many myths surround this part of the sector that do not reflect reality.

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2008 ◽  
pp. 833-853
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped e-business as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

scholarly journals Public-Private Partnerships In Spain: Lessons And Opportunities

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Allard ◽  
Amanda Trabant
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), a marriage between public- and private-sector activity, have been employed for almost two decades as a third way to optimize the use of public funds and boost the quality of services traditionally provided by the public sector. Their use has spread from the United Kingdom to Europe and beyond, and has expanded from the transport sector to innovative projects in health, education and others. In Spain, successive governments have seized on PPPs as a solution to budget constraints at a time of dwindling EU aid and stricter fiscal targets. As a result, the use of PPPs at all levels of government has exploded since 2003 and most recently culminated in a major infrastructure plan which relies on the private sector for 40% of its total investment. Undoubtedly, this trend will bring benefits to the Spanish population in terms of more abundant, lower-cost and higher-quality services. However, there are risks implicit in the way PPP is unfolding in Spain that could limit and even undo these benefits unless steps are taken to coordinate, monitor and follow up public-private projects and to communicate their virtues to the public. Spain presents an interesting paradox in the history of PPP. While it is one of Europes oldest, most active and most enthusiastic users of PPP, it is at the same time one of the countries that has demonstrated least interest at an official level in informing, monitoring, regulating and following up projects to ensure that their deepest benefits are being achieved. Relying on PPP only for private financing entails a risk that the benefits of PPP will not be realized and public services will actually become more expensive and less satisfactory over the medium and long term. The Spanish government is advised to take steps similar to those taken in the United Kingdom, to ensure that PPP is managed correctly and hence becomes an asset and not a liability to Spanish citizens.

scholarly journals Mutual aid versus volunteerism: Autonomous PPE production in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 030981682110576
Author(s):  
Katya Lachowicz ◽  
Jim Donaghey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Critical Social

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism’s inability to meet critical social needs. In the United Kingdom, mutual aid initiatives based on ‘solidarity not charity’ blossomed in a context of state incompetence and private sector negligence – including Scrub Hub, a network of groups that autonomously produced personal protective equipment and provided it directly to health workers. Using a convergence of autonomist and anarchist perspectives, this article examines Scrub Hub as an example of emergent autonomous political economies and considers the challenges of resisting co-optation into volunteerist hierarchies and suppression by the neoliberal state.

Organisational Challenges of Implementing E-Business in the Public Services

2009 ◽  
pp. 1665-1689
Author(s):  
Francesca Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Strategy

Underpinning £136 billion of economic activity in the United Kingdom, Britain’s National Mapping Agency is a commercialising public sector organisation having trading fund status and existing in the intersection of two different spheres—the public and the private. Recognised as a leading participant in the geographic information industry, within which it is forging partnerships with key private sector companies, the organisation has enthusiastically grasped ebusiness as an all-embracing phenomenon and implemented a new strategy that transformed the way it did business. Drawing on longitudinal data gathered over a period of four years, this article explores the processes of strategic and organisational transformation engendered by e-business implementation in this organisation and discusses the successful elements, as well as some of the challenges to its change efforts.

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