Posts Tagged business
EqUality
Posted by Carolina Bracken in European Union on 19/07/2011
Businesses throughout Europe could see the EU seize control of their recruitment policy and transform the composition of their boards, under new plans to promote gender equality. Whilst the underlying aim is undoubtedly laudable, the plans will inevitably prove controversial at state level, and risk skewing recruitment away from merit-based selection.
The joy of ministerial responses
Posted by James Gubb in Health, Politics on 30/07/2009
by Peter Davies
There’s a glorious pattern to ministerial responses. Here’s the Department of Health’s official spokesman quoted in The Daily Telegraph, in repost to our book ‘Putting Patients Last’, released today, in which we argue that the new generation of NHS organisations, set up ‘businesses’, still have much to learn about customer service. Under pressure from government, we find they still put the demands of the state, rather than the needs of patients, first.