Securing sustained improvements in NHS performance can only happen when staff have more control and local communities have a bigger say over how hospitals are run.
If we want to secure sustained investment in social science research designed to improve poor people's lives we need to consider some other approaches.
Nina Skorupska, chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association, welcomed giving communities the right to take a financial stake in local wind and solar energy projects: "This is an important step for securing sustained public support for renewables".
But we think Tesco is doing the right things in key areas to secure sustained improvement, and this direction of travel is more important to us than even a big one division miss.
Governments need to critically recognize the political dimension of renewable energy policies to secure sustained political support.
It supports previous work suggesting that adequate piloting, strong governmental support, refreshment of campaigns, and sufficient time to engage institutions help secure sustained implementation of a campaign's key components.
The policy message is clear: to secure sustained HRH change across a long period of time in a large country such as Brazil, policies have had to adapt to changing circumstances, whilst focusing on sequential improvements aimed at achieving long term goals.
Instead of celebrating the hard work of teachers and pupils in securing sustained improvements in GCSE pass levels, the coalition government has sought to claim, aided and abetted by commentators, that these improvements are merely the result of a 'dumbed down' GCSE qualification that has become increasingly easier to pass.
In March a study by York University of 38 schemes around the world pooling health and social care resources – including 13 in England – found none had secured a sustained reduction in hospital use.
On the basis of findings from the pilot study, funding was secured to sustain and develop the mentoring service and to expand the model across the county of Devon by commissioning new providers to implement a 'Devon Community Mentoring service'.
