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Social entrepreneurs to create choice in health care

A new Social Enterprise Unit has been set up to encourage innovation and entrepreneurialism in health and social care, the Department of Health has announced. The new unit aims to encourage social enterprises to involve staff and service users in designing and delivering healthcare services. Speaking about the new unit, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis said: “The voluntary and community sector work very hard in the community and are well placed to understand what people need. They can help us fulfill our White Paper commitment to improve the quality of services, making them more flexible and available closer to home. “Getting the third sector more involved in providing services will bring wider benefits by recycling proceeds back in to the community.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .