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Andy Begley

Andy Begley is Shropshire Council's director of adult services and chair of the West Midlands Association of Directors of Adult Social Services

Articles by Andy Begley

The art of the possible in Shropshire

By Andy Begley | 20 April 2022

As we move to post-pandemic recovery, Andy Begley reflects on how COVID has impacted on a host of...

The risk paradox

By Andy Begley | 23 January 2019

The conflict between ‘traditional’ public sector risk management and the pace required to deliver...

A billion ways to help

By Andy Begley | 04 September 2018

Shropshire Council is leading the way in the West Midlands in helping solve the health and social...

Assistance you can count on

By Andy Begley | 01 August 2018

Shropshire has been taking advantage of assisted technology to help deliver services across the c...

Evolution vs revolution

By Andy Begley | 22 May 2018

There is a data revolution coming, and Shropshire Council has embraced this to help improve local...

Big data for health and social care planning?

By Andy Begley | 11 April 2018

In this, the first article in a series for The MJ, Andy Begley looks at how data might be used in...

If only adult social care was as easy as plug and play

By Andy Begley | 27 February 2018

Andy Begley asks why can’t there be a common way to connect systems to enable health and adult so...