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Rural engagement: practitioner experience of rural innovation projects and co-production of services in Wales

Stephanie Best, Jan Myers, Fiona Williams

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Coproduction, Capacity & Change: Challenges & Opportunities for Rural Communities, 26-29 August, London, UK.

Swansea University Author: Stephanie Best

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The discourse of change in the provision of health and social care services has shifted and with it new labels have been created for organisations and initiatives that participate in the new structures: beacons, trailblazers and pathfinders. Alongside this there have been increased calls for account...

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Published in: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Coproduction, Capacity & Change: Challenges & Opportunities for Rural Communities, 26-29 August, London, UK.
Published: 2014
Online Access: http://conference.rgs.org/AC2014/37
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