The Department for integrated Government

Integrative Government

This is a new department focused on ensuring that all policies and actions fit well together.

There are numerous examples were strengthening one area of government involves weakening another.  The balance if often very challenging and controversial.  There are areas where governments have direct control, but most where they just have influence.  If a government introduces a new policy, this may result in some multinationals withdrawing investments.  A decision must be made as to whether a compromise can be struck, new legislation passed, or alternative plans are put in place.  An example is the speed at which the UK should Embrace the ‘net zero’ policy.  This involves changes in car manufacture, and the switch from petrol to electricity.  This should be happening right now, if the UK is to take the moral high ground and make it clear that we support more vulnerable countries.  However risking the crashing of the economy is not possible politically or humanitarianly.

Policy must be place at the edge of the collective comfort zone and pushed gently towards a ‘better’ desired position, using very clear and consensual ideas.  The move is to be incentivised through rewards.

This department will be allowed to stand back and take a grand overview.  Examples of it’s achievements will be,

To integrate transport to that anyone can travel freely without thinking or planning, in the same way that car owners have taken for granted.  The system in The Netherlands will be it’s model.  The cost of travel is very predictable, with the cost depended on the number of unit squares crossed.  In less populated areas, the squares are larger. The models of transport interconnect, similar to ‘Transport for London’, and ‘Transport for Wales’.  There will also be an array of local and national travelcards.  This transport will be integrated into the needs of a local community, considering the needs of school children, the elderly and people getting to work.

Public transport will be designed to be preferred to private transport.

Another example will be integrating the competing need for housing with the need to care for the environment.  This will include economic incentives to careful and protect the natural world.

Social care and health have long needed to integrate their budgets.  This government would integrate social care and health to ensure that the Japanese concept of ‘harmony’ was achieved, where the wellbeing of all is maximised.  This will help to get hospitals running smoothly, using manufacturing models on demand and capacity.  In this way waiting list will be eliminated, because accessible referrals will match the capacity of the service.

Many of the ideas behind successful integration will be lead by our universities. There will be international conventions where different academics are able to work together from different disciplines to facilitate new ideas. Previous examples of this way of working can be seen in the Macy Conferences  held in the USA in the 1960's.