Archive for February, 2009
What a surprise
Posted by James Gubb in Uncategorized on 05/02/2009
As has been argued on this blog and in numerous other places, endless restructuring in the NHS with little if any scientific or other rationale has caused immeasurable harm and come at huge cost. And so we go again. The decision to disband the Healthcare Commission and Commission for Social Care Inspection and create a new ’super’ regulator, the Care Quality Commission – criticised from the pages of the Financial Times to the House of Commons Health Committee – is proving both costly and hugely disruptive.
‘Food Glorious Food’ It Seems Oliver Was Right All Along
Posted by Claire Daley in Health on 03/02/2009
‘Food Glorious Food’ sing fellow inmates of the workhouse in which the young Oliver Twist finds himself incarcerated at the start of Lionel Bart’s musical named after the hero of Dickens’ famous novel similarly named after him. A half a century on, the same startling discovery seems once again to have been made by the tv chef who also bears that same name.
Snowballing EU legislation
Posted by David Conway in European Union on 02/02/2009
As the snow casts a thicker blanket over Britain than it has done in twenty years, thousands of sympathetic UK workers are joining walkouts over building jobs, which unions claim are being assigned to workers from other EU Member States… writes Lara Natale