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Aidan Rave

Aidan Rave is a principal consultant at the Good Governance Institute, acting deputy chair of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board and a former local authority chief executive and deputy mayor

Articles by Aidan Rave

HEALTH

Time for a health reboot

By Aidan Rave | 02 July 2024

NHS and local government leaders could use the new parliamentary session to reset their relations...

HEALTH

Daring to care pays off

By Aidan Rave | 20 March 2024

Integrated Care Boards face many challenges, yet one year on from her review, Patricia Hewitt off...

HUMAN RESOURCES

How long is a week?

By Aidan Rave | 24 July 2023

Despite the potential for negative headlines, councils cannot afford to ignore the potential bene...

HEALTH

Breaking the health outcomes gridlock

By Aidan Rave | 19 October 2022

Aidan Rave says if councils can harness their place-based networks then Integrated Care Boards co...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Taking those first steps back from crisis

By Aidan Rave | 02 June 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic what we don’t know far outweighs what we do, say Darra Sing...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Three Rs for use in a crisis

By Aidan Rave | 27 May 2020

Aidan Rave believes there are three functions a leader should be focused on beyond the immediate ...

FINANCE

Running with the risks

By Aidan Rave | 26 January 2015

Local government must be both bold in its innovative thinking, but also pragmatic about the chall...

FINANCE

Future-proofing

By Aidan Rave | 22 May 2013

Aidan Rave asks whether local government has a sufficient skillset to guide its communities thro...

FINANCE

Strategy matters

By Aidan Rave | 19 April 2012

Strategy is not a case of pointless navel-gazing – it is how we will keep sight of what local gov...