Showing posts with label care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label care. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Your caring, sharing NHS at its most cruel

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I know the term 'health fascism' is pretty polemical and intended to shock. But the truth is that increasingly public health 'c...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Why we should redirect public health funding to social care

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"3-5% of people are responsible for 39% of our spending." This is your NHS folks. The statistic comes from Bradford's three...
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Monday, 28 November 2016

Wrong, stupid and unsustainable - old people and the funding of care

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Much of the discussion following the Autumn Statement concerned Brexit and the forecasts. Plus of course the prediction from the Institute f...
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Sunday, 13 July 2014

Death doesn't become us - revisiting the case against 'assisted dying'

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**** My Mum has just gone into a nursing home. It hasn't been an easy time for my Dad and I feel slightly guilty that, for reasons of ...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

On the proper use of public health funding...

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**** Public health funding is about improving environmental factors - things like making homes warmer, reducing air pollution and preventi...
Sunday, 9 March 2014

Assisted suicide requires one person to kill another person. That's wrong.

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**** We have taken another step towards allowing the killing or the old and the ill - or 'assisted suicide' as the modern euphem...
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013

The ideology of social work: "we are all guilty"

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**** Michael Wharton, in his guise as Peter Simple, so often found his satire cropping up in real life. So it is with the mantra of Keinz ...
Monday, 4 November 2013

May I have permission to care, my lord?

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**** I attended a day's presentation and workshop for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's "Neighbourhood Approaches to Loneline...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Is it ideology or bureaucracy? On the failings of social work.

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**** Douglas Carswell points out the cruel truth about the Daniel Pelka case: The boxes were ticked. Training was complied with. Meeti...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

It's capitalism not "fair" trade that lifts people out of poverty...

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**** It always depresses me to see people who are essentially caring led down a path that really isn't in the interests of those they ...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013

It's not care, it's neglect...

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**** So we take a child "into care". Most often this is quite right and proper (although the secrecy behind the process makes it...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

Marking your own homework - the problem with inspection

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**** From BoM comes the quote of today: A government regulator regulating a nationalised industry is always going to be the public se...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Quote of the week...

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**** From Leg Iron : You like to complain that smokers ‘cost you money’ but you are happy to pay for crap like this while your grandm...
Monday, 11 February 2013

Labour's plan - tax the poor to pay for the care of the wealthy.

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**** Fresh from championing recipients of housing benefit earning over fifty grand, Labour is now planning to be the hero of the relativel...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Process or people?

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**** Surrey County Council let an old lady starve to death: Officers from Surrey Police have begun an inquiry following the death of 81...
Sunday, 20 January 2013

Labour - the party for the wealthy

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**** Or so it seems . Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said the Government had “fallen far short” of a fair soluti...
Saturday, 24 November 2012

Culture and adoption....

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**** Much excitement over the case of what seems to be blatant political bias in a child protection case in Rotherham.  And there is an od...
Sunday, 9 September 2012

So do you care?

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A long while ago I recall – in a slightly vague and woolly way – my mum talking about recruiting volunteers. People to do simple th...
Sunday, 8 July 2012

So what exactly is that money for?

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**** Again the unedifying debate over care for the elderly - characterised by the sons and daughters of comfortable middle-class folk ar...
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

I always knew a lot of doctors were in it for the money...

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**** Not all, of course, as this comment shows : Dr Dan Poulter MP said: "As a doctor, my first duty is to my patients. That i...