When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.
The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
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