by Sam | 26 Jul 2013 | Health, Public Sector
Something I have long suggested is that a “culture of carelessness” has spread throughout many areas of our once hallowed National Health Service. The publication of the Keogh Report, with its findings of 14,000 unnecessary deaths in just 11 Trusts, has finally...
by Sam | 25 Jul 2013 | Health, Nutrition, Sport, Whitehouse News
The European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) has announced that leading nutrition companies Glanbia Performance Nutrition and PhD Nutrition have joined its membership. Glanbia Performance Nutrition, which owns Optimum Nutrition, BSN and GNUK ,...
by Sam | 24 Jul 2013 | Health, Public Sector
Today’s Health Select Committee report on Urgent and Emergency Care Services follows a well-trodden path and for its authors must have felt like a paper they could have drafted before seeing their first witness. This is because the problems of urgent and emergency...
by Sam | 24 Jul 2013 | Education & Children's Services
In a week of headlines which have focused on the Royal baby and the longest heatwave for nearly 40 years, many would have missed the surprising reports that Education Secretary Michael Gove is planning a summer charm offensive aimed at head teachers. It has been...
by Sam | 23 Jul 2013 | Public Sector
In an article for The Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ this week, former Police Minister Nick Herbert pointed to new figures that showed a reduction in crime to its lowest level in three decades despite significant reductions to the police. This, Mr Herbert claimed, is...
