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Clearing up the NCC election confusion: who can vote and how it’ll work

18/10/2018by SKWAWKBOX 25 Comments

Nominations for the important elections to Labour’s National Constitutional Committee (NCC), the party’s senior disciplinary body, are underway and will close 28 October. The contest itself became clearer for members […]

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GenSec-tipped Emilie Oldknow steps down from Labour HQ role

13/03/2018by SKWAWKBOX 4 Comments

Emilie Oldknow, Labour’s Executive Director – Governance, Membership & Party Services, has announced she is quitting her post. In an email to colleagues, she said that she is leaving in […]

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Breaking: Lansman declares for GenSec – but the message is confusing

01/03/2018by SKWAWKBOX 20 Comments

Momentum founder Jon Lansman has tweeted to confirm his intention to apply for the position of Labour Party General Secretary: The message is not straightforward. Lansman encourages any members to […]

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Stafford hospital future: ‘consultation’ next week but downgrade already ‘official’

22/07/2013by SKWAWKBOX 11 Comments

For those of you following the events around the falsely-maligned Stafford hospital and the government’s opportunistic decision to put Mid Staffs Trust into special administration – or for that matter, […]

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Spot the difference? Mid Staffs ‘independent’ administrators

17/04/2013by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

Today was a fateful day for the people of Stafford and Cannock fighting to save their hospitals. Monitor, backed by a rushed-through piece of Parliamentary legislation, declared Mid Staffs NHS […]

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Spend £30m or save £53m? Insanity of Stafford closure plan

03/04/2013by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

The goings-on at Mid Staffs NHS, and the events and statistics that led to them, have been a main theme of this blog for some weeks now. I’ve shown variously […]

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Francis 243 – 0 Hunt: NHS staffing, wilful ignorance – and a plan

30/03/2013by SKWAWKBOX 20 Comments

Jeremy Hunt’s announcement in Parliament last Tuesday on the changes he is planning in the wake of the Francis Report into events at Stafford Hospital was remarkable for two things: […]

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Is Stafford losing its hospital because it humiliated Cameron in 97?

10/03/2013by SKWAWKBOX 8 Comments

I’m still working my way through Monitor‘s report on its reasons for putting Mid Staffs Foundation Trust (MSFT) into administration, and will write on that shortly. But what’s already clear […]

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Nicholson: Tory ‘knives’ about closing hospitals not preventing deaths

05/03/2013by SKWAWKBOX 9 Comments

The knives are out for NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson. In spite of the conclusion of the Francis Report on events at Stafford hospital and public backing from both […]

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Mid Staffs admin threat reveals Tory NHS attack plan

28/02/2013by SKWAWKBOX 33 Comments

It’s been announced this afternoon that Monitor, the regulatory body for NHS Trusts, has begun the process of putting Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust (MSFT) into administration. Once this process […]

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