Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's my latest column for the Muswell Hill Flyer and Highgate Handbook: Finally I managed to get Transport for London (TfL), Haringey Primary Care Trust (part of the NHS) and me together in the same place to bang heads together about the need for better bus links to the new Community Health Centre on the old [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leading health experts round on the health secretary Andy Burnham today, warning him off reversing a Labour programme of modernisation and competition within the health service. Burnham surprised cabinet ministers and policy officials alike when he announced in September that the NHS would return to the "preferred provider" model of services that existed before the government opened the...
Jobs in USA | Jobs in Bangalore, Canada, UK,... (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Brightpool are recruiting for a South West based Acute NHS Trust who have an urgent requirement for an interim Financial Planning Accountant to support the development of Service Line Reporting. As the Financial Planning Accountant you will take responsibility for the development of detailed activity and financial models that underpin the negotiation of SLAs with all PCTs and reflect the ...
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Reports critical of major British public hospital over child abuse Whistleblower fired rather than heeded. "Rocking the boat" is the one unforgiveable sin in a bureaucracy. Too bad about the patients Great Ormond Street Hospital failed to answer senior doctors’ justified concerns about the clinic which failed Baby P [who died of abuse from his carers], according to two secret reports....
UK Against Fluoridation (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Disappointing comments I WAS disappointed at Andrew Mortimore's comments about the recently published survey figures relating to the health of children's teeth and the proposed fluoridation of tap water (Daily Echo, October 29). That is the third occasion in which he has tried to brush aside the results of a survey, the other two being the Echo phone poll, and the other being the self completion survey...
Fighting Monsters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A couple of weeks ago, I attended some training about that was provided by the PCT (Primary Care Trust). For the record, it was about various policies that will be implemented regarding funding and if that sounds boring in a sentence, imagine what it...( read more )
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
If you'd like the opportunity to see the following speakers: Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnardo's Ivana La Valle, Director of Research, Evidence and Evaluation, National Children's Bureau Yvonne Roberts, Senior Associate, the Young Foundation Simon Antrobus, Chief Executive, Addaction Debbie Scott, Chief Executive, Tomorrow's People Kathy Evans, Director of Policy, Children England Liz Railton...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Not-for-profit organisation set up to provide NHS care to prisoners has gone bust, raising concerns about plans to farm out public services The collapse of Secure Healthcare, a pioneering not-for-profit organisation that provided NHS care for prisoners, serves as a sobering reminder that plans to open up public services to social enterprise will not always run smoothly. Secure, which had a contract...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Chris Bull, chief executive of both the council and PCT in Herefordshire, explains how the county is proving that partnership working at a local level can help protect public services as the spending cuts clouds gather Running an all-purpose unitary council with an annual budget of £366m is a challenge in itself. But Chris Bull combines the role in Herefordshire with overseeing the county's...
The Not So Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Just a little note before we start - this is from my point of view, as I remember it. I wasn't taking the minutes or recording events so half of this post is probably complete hogwash - as I'm at that stage in my life where I'm getting forgetful [was I even there?], and also being of peasant stoc k , I don't always know what I'm talking about ... We went along to the council planning meeting, I needn...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The NHS medical records system is under scrutiny after a nurse falsely recorded, in retrospect, that she had given a potentially life-saving medication to a female prisoner who later hanged herself. A coroner who presided over the inquest on Annemarie Cox, who died at Holloway prison, has urged the health secretary, Andy Burnham, to make changes to the computerised patient records network, known as...
Al Jahom's Final Word (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
See the list in my earlier post about the NICE consultation on pecksniff cunts inspecting homes for health & safety. Discounting the ones that are obviously arms of government (PCTs etc), and the 1 commercial organisation on the list, these are the iffy ones: URL Body Publicly Funded Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) http://www.ash.org.uk/ Charity YES Association of Play Industries http://www.api-play.org/...
Living all the days (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Well there has to be some explanation and, without getting too metaphysical and ethereal, luck is the easiest way to describe it! I’m talking now about my transition and, the way it had totally and utterly changed my life around! Sadly I’m now suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and needing two arm-crutches to walk around the luck may not stretch to all areas of my life. But then again...
Computing.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 13 November 2009 at 15:51:00 Data not properly protected by NHS authorities An NHS trust has lost data relating to 1,000 occupational therapy patients and staff members, according to the Information Commissioner's Office. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data including...
Freedom To Choose (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Remember that disgraceful video created by photographer Rankin for the Birmingham NHS Trust? You know the one, it's the one that simply breeds more hatred from anti smokers toward smokers for now, thanks to this hate mongering piece of garbage it seems as if open warfare has been declared on smokers. Rankin decided to portray a smoker being 'beaten up from within'. Very clever-I don't think! What it...
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