The social enterprise effect: taking care of things already

The Government’s 10 Year Plan for the NHS may have just recently been made public, but social enterprises have long been delivering the kind of services it aspires to. Read this new report to be inspired by the ways social enterprises are already transforming the NHS and the way services are created and delivered. From … Continued

Community Dental Services – Grin and bear it?

Not having access to a dentist can be life threatening. The growth of one Bedfordshire-based organisation is a result of offering real care to the community. Here at Social Enterprise UK, growth, which the government has focused on since inception, means everyone rises together, that everyone’s life is improved. For that to happen, we need … Continued

The NHS Plan looks like us, so why are we still invisible?

The 10 Year Plan feels like it’s taken a lot of lessons from social enterprise models. We’ve even been mentioned! But the Plan still seems blind to the significant contribution social enterprises make in delivering services, writes Social Enterprise UK Associate Director, Dan Gregory.

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A pioneering social enterprise in Northern England offers a vision of what the NHS could be like if it took prevention seriously