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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]