Showing posts with label funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funding. Show all posts
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, 2 January 2017

"We need safe spaces..." - how the NHS ducks the big questions

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I can't remember the precise moment or why the subject came up but some point in 2016, in a meeting with NHS folk, something along thes...
Wednesday, 23 December 2015

We shouldn't be surprised when right-wing politicians stop funding left-wing academics

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**** The Japanese government isn't all that keen on social science and humanities - preferring what it calls socially useful subjects:...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

It's time that NHS management started earning those big bucks they get paid

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**** It's a couple of weeks before the latest 'comprehensive spending review' so we can all understand the explosion of shroud...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

"The bigger the number the better" - public health campaigners' cavalier attitude to evidence

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An entirely gratuitous picture of cake I've felt for a long time that single issue campaigners of various kinds - poverty, public he...
Friday, 29 May 2015

Everything that's wrong with lottery funding - in one quotation

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**** The quote is from a chap called Henry Kippin who works for an organisation called Collaborate CIC (who do something very important aro...
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Saturday, 21 February 2015

How political parties get paid isn't the concern of government...it's the concern of members

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**** I know you'll all start talking about corruption and the buying of influence but, let's be honest about that problem, it'...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

Quote of the day: on the Arts Council

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**** From Lloyd Evans in the Spectator: The Arts Council, of course, is not an artistic organisation. It distributes bribes. And as a...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

The real voluntary sector - or the Big Society the sector's leaders want to kill off...

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**** The Community Development Foundation has published a report looking at what it calls the 'community sector'. This is the myr...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

How Third Sector Professionals killed Big Society...and the idea of voluntary initiative

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**** A few years ago I attended an event organised by Julian Dobson and others that was, or rather purported to be, connected in some way ...
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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...
Friday, 11 October 2013

I find it hard to fault this ambition...

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**** Although the Guardian appear to believe it it evil: "Hopefully, it will push the English system towards one in which the st...
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Monday, 5 August 2013

Do they not get it? We don't pay taxes to fund politics...

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**** ...and each time I hear someone suggesting that giving us politicians the ability to dip our fingers into the public purse to fund o...
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