Trawling over the health press I’d missed in a week’s holiday yesterday, this headline has got to be the winner: ‘Deaths from hospital blunders soar 60% in two years as NHS staff ‘abandon quality of care to chase targets’ says the Daily Mail. Really?
These days, it seems, you can’t open a newspaper without reading about social mobility and what the Government is doing to increase it. Yesterday, we read of Alan Milburn’s appointment to lead an enquiry into how more children from poor backgrounds might be got into the professions. Reports of his appointment precede publication today of… [Read More]
2008 went out with a proverbial bang as the Russo-Ukrainian dispute threatened to, and eventually did, plunge Europe into an energy crisis, writes Lara Natale. As the bells chimed midnight ringing in the New Year, the price Kiev should pay for gas in 2009 still hadn’t been agreed, thus gas supplies have been disrupted. An… [Read More]
Last week, I wrote about the seemingly perverse decision by an appeal court not to cancel the two million pounds debts a compulsive gambler had run up with his bookmakers over a six month period after it failed to keep its agreement with him not to accept bets from him placed over the telephone. Hot… [Read More]