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Design Initiative

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Promotes designers, artists and contemporary craft from the North West region.

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Merseyside ACME

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Offers networking and professional development opportunities, one-to-one business advice and evaluation services.

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North West Regional Development Agency

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The Regional Development Agency for the North West.

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Women's Business Network

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Supports the creation of new business networks for women in the North West of England and links these networks together to enable the sharing of good ideas and contacts.

Prototype electric bicycle designed by B. G. Bowden displayed at the Britain Can Make It' exhibition, 1946. (8467A)

Design Council Slide Library

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A detailed visual record of British design from the early 1950s to 1990, as well as foreign and historical material.

The first idea

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Agenda cards Currently, diabetes sufferers are monitored by the health service through regular check-ups every three -or six- months. But these sessions often fail to provide the individual support or motivation to sustain patients between visits, or to identify the real issues that may be preventing someone from carrying out their regime effectively. With diabetes now accounting for 10 percent...

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D&AD President's Lectures

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D&AD has announced the autumn schedule for its annual set of President's Lectures.

Taking a new approach

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In an ideal world, how would diabetes be managed? Having identified the characteristics for a new approach to diabetes care, the Design Council presented their ideas to leading healthcare experts in the UK and the US, asking them to develop a vision for the future of diabetes management. Although the resulting ideas were too far removed from the current realities of the Bolton Group to put...

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Helping people with diabetes

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In Bolton, 29 people are newly diagnosed with diabetes every week... can design help them?

Working with patients to create a new kind of service

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The Design Council team embarked on a project to try to bring about real change for the growing diabetes community in Bolton. Having advertised the project in GP surgeries in the area, the team found a group of 20 willing participants, all diabetes sufferers and all ready to share their experiences of living with the condition. The first stage of the project involved the team spending time...