February 9, 2017

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New Regulatory Bodies for health professionals?

Jeremy Hunt has just produced a White Paper on simplifying the regulatory machinery for health professionals – again. This, on the same day that figures emerged showing that the NHS has faile…

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I am a partially retired health policy academic. I married a Welshman and settled in the UK in 1969. I love my adopted country, and am continuously fascinated and intrigued by how it works! This blog is part of an ongoing attempt to understand it better.

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Public Services: Radiators or Drains?

Across the board, our public services are under stress. Budgets for the police, the NHS, Social Services, and education have all been hit, hard, since 2010. Even the NHS, to which the Conservative government keeps trying to tell us it is giving ‘extra money of £8billion’ is, in real terms, dealing with a cut in […]

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NHS: Why Are We Waiting?

Waiting times in the NHS are going up. The situation in England got so bad this year that some targets were removed. The rationale given for this is that ‘targets are detrimental to improving performance as they focus attention on the wrong issues’. Well let’s see how that is working out in practice. First a […]

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Welsh language

The Welsh Assembly Government is working hard to promote Welsh language learning among all age groups of the population. Welsh language classes are running locally, under a special initiative and in tandem with Cardiff University. This promotion means that classes are free of the usual restrictions on LEA-run adult education and community learning programs. So […]

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