This will be led by ten Local Area Teams working closely with specialised health care providers and Centralised Commissioning Groups.
Some can't resist including jargon: "We are consolidating some groups, centralising functions and outsourcing others, and aligning our resources across brands and platforms," said a lay-off memo to staff at MTV networks.
By coordinating and centralising the resources of groups with similar aims but different means, the single platform would ideally reduce some of the wasteful overlapping typical of social-service bureaucracies.
SABMiller's head of media relations, Nigel Fairbrass, said corporate structures used by his company benefited its local businesses, since centralised procurement, intra-group finance and management expertise gave them better prices and services than they could obtain individually.
They were simply bequeathed by departing imperial powers who left highly centralised, authoritarian states to a tiny group of western-educated Africans who rushed in and took over.
Staff on the titles, part of the Guardian Media Group – publishers of MediaGuardian.co.uk – were today told of the cuts, which will see the production of the group's weekly newspapers centralised in the MEN offices in Scott Place in central Manchester.
Last week, we learned and confirmed that Postmates laid off all its city managers, affecting about 15 employees, as it cut costs and centralised more reporting to a smaller group of general managers.
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.
This looks like a centralising not a de-centralising measure.
This wrecked the rigid chains of command in the space of a few days, causing the group to become far less centralised.
