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Jeremy Hunt says that 'NHS 111' is now "up-and-running", but that targets should not be gamed

  The reality is that the vast majority of hospitals in the NHS are currently failing [more]

Outsourcing, NHS, and the “modern anomie”

    Jon Cruddas recently gave a progress report on how the evolution of [more]

We've just had a huge debate about the NHS. It's just a pity that it's been the wrong one.

Think of how much time we've just all spent, in thinking about the way in which services [more]

Competitive tendering is no longer the solution; it is very much the problem.

  As part of the "Big Society", medics and lawyers have now been offended over [more]

They've run out-of-steam, as outsourcing and making lots of money is not an ideology

  A lot of mileage can be made out of the 'story' that the Coalition has "run out [more]

Is the pilot always to blame if things go wrong in a safety-compliant plane in the NHS?

The "purpose" of an air plane crash investigation is apparently as set out in the tweet [more]

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Jeremy Hunt says that ‘NHS 111′ is now “up-and-running”, but that targets should not be gamed

Posted on May 19, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
Jeremy Hunt and Jeremy Vine

  The reality is that the vast majority of hospitals in the NHS are currently failing to see 95% of patients within four hours.  Jeremy Hunt was interviewed on the BBC ‘The Andrew Marr Show’ this morning in a wideranging … Continue reading →

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Outsourcing, NHS, and the “modern anomie”

Posted on May 17, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
Outsourcing cartoon

    Jon Cruddas recently gave a progress report on how the evolution of ‘One Nation’ policy was going, In an article by Patrick Wintour published yesterday, Cruddas describes a ‘modern anomie’, a breakdown between an individual and his or … Continue reading →

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We’ve just had a huge debate about the NHS. It’s just a pity that it’s been the wrong one.

Posted on May 12, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
White Elephant

Think of how much time we’ve just all spent, in thinking about the way in which services will be mostly put out for competitive tendering in the National Health Service. One of the first rules in law is that you … Continue reading →

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Competitive tendering is no longer the solution; it is very much the problem.

Posted on May 11, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
competitive tendering

  As part of the “Big Society”, medics and lawyers have now been offended over competitive tendering. Competitive tendering is no longer the solution; it is very much the problem. Yesterday, it was the lawyers’ turn. The Bar Standards Board (“BSB”) … Continue reading →

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They’ve run out-of-steam, as outsourcing and making lots of money is not an ideology

Posted on May 10, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
outsourcing

  A lot of mileage can be made out of the ‘story’ that the Coalition has “run out of steam”, and this week two commentators, Martin Kettle and Allegra Stratton, branded the Queen’s Speech as ‘the beginning of the end’. … Continue reading →

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Is the pilot always to blame if things go wrong in a safety-compliant plane in the NHS?

Posted on May 9, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
plane

The “purpose” of an air plane crash investigation is apparently as set out in the tweet below: It seems appropriate to extend the “lessons from the aviation industry” in approaching the issue of how to approach blame and patient safety … Continue reading →

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Some within Labour should not become a sub-party of opposition, particularly given “The Spirit of ’45″

Posted on April 15, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
Grahame and Eoin

Many people in politics are ‘glass half full‘ people rather than ‘glass half empty‘, so the death of Baroness Thatcher last week provided a useful juncture of all parties to look at themselves to see where they’d got to. There … Continue reading →

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The BBC and ‘Ding Dong – The Witch is Dead’” – Thatcher, the state, free market choice and competition

Posted on April 13, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
Ding Dong

It is of course a favourite of Christmas pasts, present, and possibly future? Currently, this video of “Ding, Dong – The Witch is Dead” has had 1,173,398 views. The BBC has got caught up in a huge row, regarding what … Continue reading →

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A response to Tony Blair’s “advice” this morning

Posted on April 11, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
Pig with a rosette

      This is a response to “Labour must search for answers and not merely aspire to be a repository for people’s anger”, by Tony Blair, published in the New Statesman on 11 April 2013.   Fundamentally, Blair is … Continue reading →

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What will a Miliband-Thatcher brand achieve?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by legalawarenesssoc
legacy

    Characterising the leadership of Margaret Thatcher is difficult. The problem is that, despite the perceived ‘successes’ of her tenure of government, her administration is generally accepted to have been very socially divisive. For many, she is the complete … Continue reading →

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