by Chris Rogers | 25 May 2016 | Defence, Economy, European Union, Politics, Public Sector
Growing up I was an avid fan of The Simpsons, and it was always particularly funny when the family was on a trip with Bart and Lisa repeatedly shouting “Are we there yet?” at an ever-more frustrated Homer. For everyone bar the most fervent political wonks and hacks,...
by Chris Rogers | 13 May 2016 | Education & Children's Services, Politics, PR and Media Relations
Last week Education Secretary Nicky Morgan pulled an about-face on the government’s academies programme so abrupt, you could almost hear the screeching tyres as she slammed on the brakes to pull a U-turn. The climbdown on the compulsory academisation of schools was a...
by Chris Rogers | 1 Apr 2016 | Education & Children's Services, Health, Public Sector
Health and education. Two areas of policy vital to any government. And now it emerges that both could come out on strike at the same time. General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower has revealed at the NUT’s conference that teachers could...
by Chris Rogers | 24 Mar 2016 | Health, Politics, Public Sector
It’s not so much a case of ‘war declared’ as the battle of wills between Jeremy Hunt and the BMA being escalated to total war. The announcement by the BMA that the next walkout of junior doctors will be an “all-out strike,” in which emergency care won’t be covered,...
by Sam | 16 Oct 2014 | Health
The Guardian has reported that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will say today that mistakes, such as giving patients the wrong drug, cost the NHS budget £2.5 billion annually, adding that budgetary constraints are not an excuse for not improving safety. Hunt is expected...
