Posts Tagged ‘NHS’
Oh for a bit more Brexit…
“Unprecedented” and “seismic” were phrases commonly used to describe the events around the relatively recent Parliamentary and Brexit shenanigans. Remember them? Suggest we’ll all have to re-calibrate our analogies after this little lot. How are you coping? Scary isn’t it? Do you find yourself wishing you could tune into the radio or telly for a…
Read MoreThere’s a lot of it about
So what do you reckon? Will Matt “’Apless” Hancock be, at this moment, begging for mercy as he gets a damn good thrashing from Dominic Cummings? It’s not entirely implausible. Comms people know the value of key messages and keeping their people on song. Consequently, we live in a world in which just about every…
Read MoreTerrorism by another name
Terrorism comes in many formsBad news, it’s said, travels fast. Although manifestly not fast enough in some instances. Being a resident of Streatham, police helicopters and sirens are about as newsworthy as rain in Manchester. It’s an oddly comforting urban white noise.Sitting in the garden last Sunday however, there were noticeably more helicopters buzzing around.…
Read MoreThe importance of a good lunch
Rejoice in this election and Prince Andrew-free zone.Instead, I have to pass on a snippet of conversation that might amuse and delight you as much as it did me. My 16 month old nephew came over from France where he lives with English mum and French dad.He attends a nursery and, this being France, is already…
Read MoreNorthern EXPOsure
The end of the affair So, that’s it then for the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo for this year – and indeed, for ever. Next year’s Expo will be a joint affair with NHS Confederation called, imaginatively, ConfedExpo. The Expo started around ten years ago and was held at London Dockland’s vast ExCel conference…
Read MoreEat, bray, love
Are you Eeyore or Tigger? A selflessly positive Pollyanna or a right Debbie Downer? As Eeyore would say, who cares anyway? It turns out that we should all care because, earlier in the week, news broke that we must all try to retain an upbeat, positive frame of mind in order to live longer and healthier…
Read More40 years on
If the 1960’s was something of a sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll-fuelled party, the 1970’s was the head splitting hangover. It was not a happy decade. Hard to believe now that we had to go shopping with a lighted candle or torchlight because of the sudden and unscheduled power cuts. Worse, all TV broadcasting…
Read MoreYou really couldn’t make it up
I suppose there comes a point when you have to stop saying, “you couldn’t make it up”. But fact, it seems, continues to trump fiction – a phrase I bet they don’t use a lot in the corridors of the White House. Brexit and the NHS both continue to deliver such monumentally stupid situations which,…
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