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Healthwatch: The new body overseeing the NHS

Local Healthwatch is a network being introduced across England placing service users at the heart of delivery. They must also be social enterprises. Mo Girach, special advisor to the NHS Alliance and Sarah Cannings, from BWB explain.

 

 
Mo Girach
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Beyond the rhetoric for Scottish social enterprise

The social enterprise community will gather in Glasgow for the Social Enterprise Exchange on 21 March. The trade fair, networking and policy event, is an opportunity to showcase the best of Scottish social enterprise. Duncan Thorp tells us what themes are emerging.

Duncan Thorp