Design thinking has become a popular approach for governments around the world seeking
to address complex governance challenges. It offers novel techniques and speaks to …

Objectives: The aim of this review was to identify healthcare management barriers,
challenges and obstacles in the development of health partnerships in community …

Third sector partnerships are under pressure to change in the light of the increasing cost
pressures on local public services. The literature throws doubt on the level of economies of …

Purpose Inter-organisational collaboration (IOC) across healthcare settings has been put
forward as a solution to mounting financial and sustainability challenges. Whilst ingredients …

Based on research with 21 food banks across eight local authority areas in England, this
article examines the sustainability of food banks in their attempts to balance demand and …

Historically, men, as a population group, have been conspicuous by their absence at a
global and national health policy level. Moreover, most gender-focused health policy …

Following the 2017 UK terrorist attacks by extremist religious individuals, it is notable that
politicians and individual commentators remarked on the pressing need for local partnership …

Social enterprises are organisations that pursue a social mission through the application of
market-based strategies, whereby revenue generated from business activities is reinvested …

Housing is perhaps the ideal field in which to explore the argument that something has
changed in public services involving the replacement of monolithic, hierarchical public …

This policy review re-examines the findings from a study on how local government
managers might best lead partnerships to achieve more innovations across the public …