I begin with a public information announcement….If you are following the debate about the Health and Social Care Bill then you really must come to AMRC’s workshop on 29th March to discuss its impact on research and what’s to be done about it. If it is anything like the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Research… Read More Health and Social Care Bill and other reasons to switch-on
After days of incessant pounding by critics and opponents the Government brushed itself down today and published its Health and Social Care Bill. The text of the legislation can be found on the parliament website. It is a titanic Bill – 353 pages, 137 clauses, 22 schedules long – and the vagaries of our parliamentary… Read More Health and Social Care Bill Published
Over the holidays I caught a BBC Radio 4 item about the days of the touch typist. It was one of those gems of broadcasting which looked through a narrow lens to tell the listener much about how the world has changed. It also brought back many memories of my time as a messenger at the old… Read More Getting touchy over the information revolution
The news earlier this week that the National Institute of Clinicial and Health Excellence (NICE) is to lose its powers for deciding which drugs should be made available on the NHS (to be replaced by a new system based around GP commissioning) brought an alternative version of Adam Smith’s remarks about shopkeepers to mind: “To found a… Read More 'A nation of General Practitioners' and other bits of philosophising
