DWP’s fake psych ‘test’ breaks EU AND British consent law?
It’s been a big day. My articles on the fake psychometric ‘test’ that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is forcing unemployed people to take on pain of losing […]
Tag Archives: clinical
Is Stafford losing its hospital because it humiliated Cameron in 97?
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 curious Tory relationship with numbers: police, NHS, economy and more
This week, in PMQs, there was a very curious exchange between Ed Miliband and David Cameron – one that was very revealing about a particular Tory failing of which I’ve become more […]
If you let the fox into the chicken coop: profit & ‘efficiency’ in the NHS
A couple of news stories have caught my eye over the past few days, because they’ve confirmed developments in the NHS that I’ve predicted in this blog as well as […]
Creeping privatisation at South Tees NHS Trust
I wrote recently about my FOI request to South Tees NHS Hospitals Trust regarding any plans for job cuts and privatisation of services, and then about the impact of those […]
Govt-driven NHS overstretch: an impact case study
I’ve written briefly about the FOI information I received from the excellent South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust regarding plans for staffing cuts. While this did not reflect such a bad […]
FOI NHS job loss response
A short time ago, I put in an FOI request to the 2 NHS Trusts nearest to me regarding planned job losses. The request was as follows: In view of […]