Tom Merson, who as the fastest on the day and holds the course record. THe second runner set a new womens’ best time. Generally looked like fun.
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Killerton House Park Run (yesterday)
Sunday, March 18th, 2012GOSH
Sunday, March 18th, 2012Objectivity is difficult to maintain, but not doing so can bite. The reinvention of the media as interactive and linked has good and bad aspects, and a load more that are just aspects, but the self-writtenascribed piece on Jane Collins, the CEO of Great Ormond Street hospital has drawn fire entirely reasonably.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2012/mar/16/great-ormond-street-hospital-jane-collins
GOSH did not shine in the Baby P/Dr kim Holt affair, and I’m not sure they have yet shone over fixing their mess. Private Eye often runs pieces on Grub Street’s machinations and decisions, and the provenance of thiat article might well find a place there.
Digital COntinuity
Saturday, March 17th, 2012The Australian digital continuity plans have the merit of at least being plans. At http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/agency/digital/digital-continuity/plan/index.aspx. NHS management and organisational structures are more concerned with eliminating all signs of their past, and presenting themselves as new. The first 3 years of setting up a new organisation are more fun than running it forever, or even for the 30 years doctors tend to hang around doctoring. One grows tired of seeing history repeated.
Pipes in Focus
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Focus on Imaging, an exhibition and trade fair.
Nigel, Lord Crisp used to run the NHS
Sunday, February 26th, 2012“It [The Bill] has tried to elevate the ideas of competition and the use of the private sector, which are just mechanics, just mechanisms, as if they were the purpose.” he is reported b y the BBC to have said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17169519
Good point.
“Confused and confusing” he said, and it is. My worry is that when I see something being made so complex as not to be understood, there often turns out to be crime behind it. Obviously not if it is being run by HM Ministers of course, but chaos and floppage are likely to ensue if the Bill is not reversed.
IMF alarmed by Argentine economy
Sunday, February 26th, 2012http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2012/pr1230.htm
The Torygraph economic blogger reports that the Argentinian government have been misreporting their inflation rate, and it is running at close to 30% per year.
The renewed concentration on the Falklands seems less surprising, in this context, but no less alarming.
I do wonder what the UK rate of inflation really is though. The part of the economy which is qangos subsisting on covert taxes – fees for things they regulate – seems to be inflating rather faster than our announced figures, and I don’t think that will do us any good.
Prof. John Ashton
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012http://www.johnrashton.securemachines.co.uk/default.asp
I’ve not met him, but I suspect him of being better able to give an unbiased opinion of the proposed changes to the NHS than the Chief Executive of the Cumbrian PCT, whose organisation has declared disciplinary action upon him.
A career change is indicated. But not for the Prof, I think.
Torygraph: Doctors rebut…
Monday, February 13th, 2012http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9052582/Doctors-rebut-claim-most-favour-health-reforms.html