Time for a rethink on planning emphasis.
For administrators who joined the service before reorganisation, the temptation to look back affectionately at times when planning followed the local authority model is often too difficult to master. Here, Steve Taylor, research assistant with Clwyd AHA, looks again at the corporate planning mechanisms in local government and argues that they still hold lessons which the NHS may need to re-learn in the future.
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