Blog Post: LOCAL GOVT CHANGE REVIEW

A summary of the proposed merger and devolution landscape across Local Government in February 2024 from our Head of Data..............

Blog Post: NHS COMMISSIONING

A brief summary from our Head of Data looking at the current structural and commissioning landscape across the NHS in England in January 2024..............

Blog Post: LATCOS AND OTHER POCOS

More acronyms I hear you say! - well, let’s start with a little explanation and unpicking: Local Authority Trading Company - a company..............

Blog Post: Strategies for Success in B2G Marketing

Entering the public sector market can be a daunting task, especially for businesses coming from the commercial sector..............

Blog Post: UK Geographical Units (GU's)

For a relatively small land, the UK isn’t half complicated when it comes to political or organisationally meaningful areas around the UK Government................

Blog Post: Scraping the Barrel - where does our data comes from?

An oft received enquiry from our end is “where do you get your data from?” - a reasonable inquiry and, commonly, based on the assumption that................

Blog Post: When is a Public Body not a Public Body?

Nope, no punchline. However, among many existential questions we ask ourselves on a semi-regular basis at Oscar, one of the bigger ones is;................

Blog Post: Political Seat Tracker

Part of the joys of researching and maintaining data around the UK political landscape is being able to see the changes across the political parties......

Blog Post: Integrated Care Systems and Boards - the future?

After much change in the past few decades and (see above) no little confusion from within and without the sector, as part of the NHS Long Term plan........

Blog Post: What Oscar data can I keep, when and why!?

A relatively regular question we have with subscribers and users who have completed a marketing campaign and are at the end of a database subscription.......

Blog Post: 2023 Local Elections

The May 2023 local elections saw some signifcant movement between the political parties. This election is the largest of the 4/5 year cycle in Local Government. At over 40% of all seats, over 8200 seats went to the public vote.................

Blog Post: The continued rise of Academies

Conceived of in the 1990's under Labour and later further advocated under the Conservatives, what are now referred to as Academies - or perhaps more specifically an English state funded Schools that would operate outside of.................