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Does getting back to work have to be a pain?
Work is good for you. It meets psychosocial needs, provides a framework for identity and social status, reduces poverty, and promotes rehabilitation and health.
With more than 2.6 million people in the UK dependent on incapacity benefits, the government is looking for ways to help people return to the workplace. The development of the new Employment and Support Allowance that is replacing Incapacity Benefit and Income Support focuses on what people can do, rather than on what they can’t.
This and the other reports in the longrunning series of New Statesmanand Pfizer joint-sponsored round table discussions are available at: www.policyforum.co.uk
The Future direction of the NHS
Sixty years ago, few could have predicted that the National Health Service would look as it does now. Indeed, its founders even predicted falling demand for its services, as major infections were brought under control.
Predicting what the NHS will start to look like over the next 60 years may be even more difficult as the pace of change will be furious and could lead us in directions that we have not even countenanced.
This supplement, sponsored jointly by the New Statesman and Pfizer, invited participants to offer their own expectations for the future direction of health services. What those who have participated in this project seem to agree on is that technology will have a radical effect on the landscape, that patients will be at the centre of their own healthcare and that services will be delivered more locally, even in patients’ own homes.
Force for Good
With over 400,000 personnel and the second-highest expenditure in the world, the UK’s armed forces are a significant player in international peace and stability efforts. Applied expertise in areas such as civil governance, logistics, procurement, healthcare and resource management can help secure real advantages.
However, the politics of the Iraq and Afghanistan operations have impacted on the national narrative about defence: negative stories in the press mix with reduced public engagement with the armed forces, closing off open discussion about the broader opportunities and challenges raised by current deployed operations.
This round table discussion, sponsored jointly by Atos Origin and the New Statesman, examines the valuable role that the British Armed Forces play in complementing the UK’s foreign policy and international development agenda, and considers how these benefits can be sustained and enhanced over time.
Qualifying for the future
If only someone would invent an educational satnav device to make the journey from school gate to workplace a little easier. Just punch in the desired career destination and follow the on-screen instructions. Until then, the plethora of courses and colleges, schemes and programmes, on offer will isorientate many learners trying to pick the right route for them. That the landscape is constantly shifting, with new job requirements forming an obstacle here and specialised qualifications rising there, makes it even harder to get one’s bearings.
It’s not about to become any simpler. Change and complexity are fundamental characteristics of the 21st century.
Round table: is a two-way conversation with pupils realistic?
Previous Supplements
2009
- Does getting back to work have to be a pain?
- The Future direction of the NHS
- Force for good - Opportunities and challenges of deployed operations
- Qualifying for the future
2008
- Understanding the changing face of primary care
- Political Studies Guide: Politics and the internet age
- Creativity & Culture: Developing an education for the 21st century
- Supporting our universities
- Trade Union Guide 2009
- Citizen 2.0: Protecting privacy, security and civil liberties in a digital society
- Practical learning: Are we preparing for the real world?
- Crime: A special report
- Biotech Britain: Realising the impossible
- Rules of engagement: Cross-sector commissioning for effective service delivery
- Learning to work: New lessons in employer engagement
- Media: the multi-platform age
- Innovation: harnessing change in a world of flux
- World-class strategy for cancer: a round-table discussion
2007
- Video games: Gaming becomes inclusive
- Perceptions and standards in catering and hospitality: a round-table discussion
- Britain and europe: Marriage on the rocks? (includes Political Studies Guide 2008)
- Valuing our heritage: a round-table discussion
- Climate change and carbon trading
- The future of the high street Shopping in the 21st century: the new retail experience
- Fair care for all - how to fix an unequal system for the 21st Century
- Choosing the right direction - education supplement and roundtable discussion
- The new age of the train
- Trade Union Guide 2008 - with comprehensive contact listings
- New Media Awards 2007
- Healthcare and the third sector - roundtable discussion
- The NHS funding gap - supplement and roundtable discussion
- Energy: what lies ahead - supplement and roundtable discussion
- Medical Progress - supplement and roundtable discussion
- Addiction - supplement and roundtable discussion
- Higher education & skills - supplement and roundtable discussion
- Public libraries - a roundtable discussion
- The future of manufacturing
- Teaching 21st century skills - a roundtable discussion
- Devolution in practice: health policy - a roundtable discussion
- Ethical Food - and roundtable discussion
- Who do you think you are? - a roundtable discussion
- 21st Century NHS Supplement - and roundtable discussion
2006
- Financial Literacy Supplement - and roundtable discussion
- Video Gaming Supplement
- Employment skills and the Olympics - a roundtable discussion
- Political Studies Guide 2007
- The Smith Institute Media Lecture - by Mark Thompson, Director general of the BBC
- IT and modernisation - a roundtable discussion
- Copyright Reform: In the digital age - a roundtable discussion
- Across Borders: Healthcare & Wellbeing - a roundtable on health from a European perspective
- New Media Awards 2006
- Smart Learning - How smart can we make society?
- The Smith Institute Arts Lecture 2006
- The New Statesman Media Lecture
- Educating for creativity - a roundtable discussion
- The Future of Medicine - a roundtable discussion
- Counterfeiting Culture - a roundtable discussion
- Heat and Light - UK energy and climate policy in context
- Practical Learning - a roundtable discussion
- Living Together - a roundtable discussion
- London's leading role
- Marketing Public Health
- Public Nutrition
- Financial Literacy - a roundtable discussion
2005
- Innovative Britain
- Reducing health inequalities
- Commissioning in the NHS
- Towards Trade Justice
- Political Studies Guide 2006
- C8 - Capitalising on creativity
- Driving digital Britain - Britain's digital future delivered today
- Life beyond oil
- Joined-up criminal justice - can it work?
- It's all in good taste - A New Statesman special supplement on nutrition.
- Trade Union Guide 2006.
- New Media Awards 2005 supplement
- Africa - Creating sustainable health systems
- Fears, phobias and facts - How risky is the real world?
- A 2020 vision for the NHS
- Too little, too late? - The risky business of pensions
- Now that's clever - Why it's never too late to learn
- This way to financial inclusion - a roundtable discussion
2004
- Towards a better Britain - a series of roundtable supplements from around the UK examining broadband
- The NS Media Lecture by Mark Thompson, BBC Director General
- Hull: the digital laboratory
- After switch-over - What next for public service television?
- 10 years of the Lottery
- Trade Union Guide 2005
- Political Studies Guide 2005
- Is choice good for us? - The future of public services
- New Media Awards 2004
- A to B - Will London's transport get us there?
- A happy marriage? - Corporate social responsibility and social enterprise
- How to deliver services closer to home - A round-table discussion on new localism
- Whatever happened to broadband?
- Are you being served? - The future of public service television
- The Police - Where now?
- Adult Basic Skills - Who is responsible?
- One too many? - the art of sensible drinking
- Legal Services
2003
- Aviation - What's on the horizon?
- Community Justice - Concepts and Delivery
- Living History - The present state of our past
- On the right lines? - The state of the railways
- The NS lecture 2004 - Has TV got news for you? by Patricia Hodgson
- Political Studies Guide 2004
- Nuclear Waste: Time to face the facts
- Confidence in internet security
- Our mobile future
- Trade Union Guide 2004
- New Media Awards 2003
- Stakeholder Healthcare - Derek Wanless responds
- Energising Our Future
- 90th Anniversary Edition
- 2003 Budget
- Political Studies Guide 2003
- The Real Russia
- Iraq Dossier
- Power for the people
- London's Economic Strength
- The Skill Factor
- From Rags To Riches: the case for better public spaces
- Stakeholder Healthcare: Towards a better future
2002
- Spectrum Charging
- Political Studies Guide 2003
- Trade Union Guide 2003
- Ken's London
- Your Health
- The Defence Business
- Social Enterprise
- Britain in Space
- A Digital Quest - A New Statesman and BT Roundtable discussion
- Vital Signs - A debate on the health of the NHS
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