United Kingdom
Briefing paper
Electronic health records
This POSTnote explains the plans to introduce electronic health records for everyone. As well as background on what information such records will contain, the paper discusses the opportunities and challenges implementing them will involve.
Guide
Using research evidence: a practice guide
This practice guide from the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Nesta's Innovation Skills Team, has been created to help you use research evidence to improve your work.
Guide
Social media toolkit: a practical guide to achieving benefits and managing risks
This Toolkit provides a general overview of social media, supported by specific guidance for particular types of user and scenario for use in the higher education sector. Social media is a general term for a range of internet-based applications that allow people to create, co-create, share and interact with information. The scale of use of...
Conference paper
Using the land-use planning system to achieve transport-planning outcomes: comparing experiences between NSW and the UK
Drawing on interviews and key policy documents, the review compared key policy mechanisms relating to the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of travel plans, identifying factors in the UK system that were lacking in NSW.
Report
Creative economy employment in the EU and the UK: a comparative analysis
Analysts and policymakers have long complained of the dearth of internationally comparable statistics on the creative industries because it has made it impossible to benchmark the performance of different countries. In January 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) adopted the Dynamic Mapping methodology for classifying some industries as ‘creative’ and others not...