Posts Tagged regulation
What the NHS did on April Fool’s Day
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 02/04/2009
1st April. April Fool’s Day. A day for multiple press releases from the Department of Health. The new super-regulator, the Care Quality Commission comes into force. New Integrated Care Organisation (ICOs) pilots are announced. The Performance Framework is announced: minimum standards of quality, safety and financial management that patients can expect from the NHS. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are to be collected. The National Quality Board meets for the first time. A new, ‘simpler’, complaints system is introduced. And the payment framework for Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) starts life.
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Sizes of bottles, lengths of bus journeys
Posted by Nick Cowen in European Union on 26/03/2008
The EU: is there anything it cannot regulate? As Cato alerts us, apparently not. This week a wine business faces costs of £30,000 to comply with one of latest petty regulations while a bus route has to be artificially cut in three in order to comply with another, pointlessly wasting passenger time.
Reversing the ‘culture of hopelessness’
Posted by James Gubb in European Union on 12/12/2006
David Cameron finally ended his impasse on that political nuisance called the European Union this week by challenging Jose Manuel Barosso and the EU’s leaders to end the prevalent ‘culture of hopelessness’ and confront its failings. In particular he attacked the EU on the CAP and development, fraud, its record on tackling carbon emissions and over-regulation. Tough-talking indeed. But, the question has to be asked: is it really possible?