2024 marks 7 years of Ideas Alliance. Over that time we’ve grown from a small story sharing platform to a social consultancy on a mission to make co-production and collaboration the norm across the country. Co-founder Helen Sharp starts our celebrations by looking back at how it all started and what's coming next.
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Ideas Alliance co-founder Helen Sharp kicks off the new year reflecting on how exciting it is to see the health and social care commissioning landscape shift slowly as more people take up the co-production and collaborative commissioning banner.
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Key takeaways from the first UK Alliancing in Health and Social Care Symposium we hosted in Birmingham earlier this month where we discussed how have conversations about how far alliancing has come in the past ten years, how to bring others to the table, and what we need to do next.
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In this guest blog, Beyond Empower founder Ben Andrews tells us about their work to transform mainstream spaces, communities and leisure services so that they're accessible to people with disabilities. By thinking differently about the barriers, Beyond Empower help providers, councils and businesses create services that everyone in the community can access and enjoy.
As part of their Keep it Local campaign, Locality would like to hear from you and understand how the public service landscape is shaping up
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This latest guidance from Locality shakes up procurement and gives you ideas for keeping services local and increasing social value
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Localis' latest report on the integration of health and social advocates a new focus and a move away from structures and finance.
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Fiona Weir explores the asset-based questions to ask when development isn’t happening as expected.
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This publication will give commissioners the confidence to challenge resistant procurement practice and support innovation. A must-read...
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Mental health services in Lambeth are being transformed through co-production and collaboration.
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We look at two guidance documents published this month by NHS England on involving people in their own health and in health services
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We take a look at Realising the Value, a report outlining the evidence of the benefits of people and communities working together in the health system.
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Burcu Borysik, Mayday Trust