Fundamental criticism levelled at the centralisation of breast cancer treatment at large cancer hospitals and the subsequent certification of these breast centres concerns the fact that no definitive measures exist as yet to demonstrate the advantages of this system.
One of the most heated debates at the recent Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival was the claim that centralisation at C4 had squeezed creativity out of the system.
Alan Campbell, senior responsible officer for stroke centralisation at NHS Salford clinical commissioning group, said: "We welcome this research, which adds extra impetus to our existing plans to further centralise hyperacute stroke services in Greater Manchester.
We use the index to simulate the impact of a policy aiming at increasing the centralisation of public secondary education provision, and find that it negatively affects public transport accessibility for students with the lowest levels of accessibility.
What is more, the prime minister chooses the projects for both units, and the units can invoke his authority to ensure co-operation.Meanwhile, at Number 11The centralisation of government is not confined to the prime minister's office.
But this could be the moment when all the parliamentary parties, after a century of centralisation at Whitehall and Westminster, could have the sincerity of their newly discovered devolutionary instincts put to the test.
Or as Naomi Klein writes, "neoliberal economics is biased at every level towards centralisation, consolidation, homogenisation.
The British state was built for a previous era, to run a vast and violent empire built at a time when centralisation brought power.
As a veteran critic of the academy model, I can't deny a smidgeon of satisfaction at hearing concerns about centralisation, patchy quality, loss of freedom, reduction in parent choice and the anti-democratic nature of coercion coming from the mouths of people who have slavishly supported this wrong-headed policy for the past 10 years.
"The SNP cabinet stood behind Kenny MacAskill's illiberal centralisation agenda at every twist and turn".
