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Smaller is larger: manufacturing’s contribution to GDP
Manufacturing’s contribution to the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is much smaller than services. In 2010, manufacturing’s nominal Gross Value Added (GVA) – which effectively measures a sector’s...
View ArticleNHS 111: lessons to learn
A developing story in health in recent weeks has been the issues with the government’s rollout of NHS 111, a new non-emergency triage telephone service designed to combine NHS Direct and local...
View ArticleThe Millennium Bug – from trilobites to terabytes
Years before I joined Civitas, I worked as a computer programmer. It was a fragmented industry. My platform of choice was midrange computers built by IBM: the sort of shared, largish computer on which...
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