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OPM has a multi-skilled team who can help you with all the stages of the commissioning process using a range of approaches to meet your particular needs, including workshops, research, change plans, stakeholder engagement, evaluation and team and individual coaching.

In this paper, Sue Goss and Paul Tarplett outline the approaches that local authorities might taking to make savings and give examples of what has worked well and why.

Ewan King, Director at the Office for Public Management, spoke at about building cohesive and resilient communities at the conference Community Cohesion 2010 in London on the 15 July.

Sue Goss, OPM principal, shares a bit about herself. Sue leads our government and local community work, connecting our leadership development, organisational development, stakeholder engagement and research to the needs and priorities of clients in local authorities, local strategic partnerships and other organisations.

Councils and PCTs are looking at integration as a way of improving outcomes and reducing costs.  This discussion paper summarises different models of integration and explores the factors which are critical for success.

NHS leaders who are thinking about merging or integrating services, or collaborating with other organisations to improve services, may find this short flyer helpful. It poses some of the questions you should be asking yourself, and describes how OPM might help you make important but difficult decisions.

An OPM public interest briefing by Catherine Staite. Efficiency – which usually means ‘more for less’ – has been a constant theme in the public sector for the past five or six years. Many approaches have been taken, including outsourcing services, sharing services, restructuring and de-layering, integrating services and organisations, and reducing or increasing charges for services. In this briefing, Catherine Staite argues that while there are still opportunities for making further savings in local public services by improving the way that local partners ‘buy’ and ‘do’, opportunities for much greater savings lie in changing the way in which partners work together to deliver ‘change’ for individuals, families and communities. It draws on OPM’s research and the work we do with clients to improve efficiency in holistic and sustainable ways.