Home
Kieran Lamb's Library tagged → View Popular
Paramedic suspended after letting trainee try to save patient who was already dead - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A senior paramedic was suspended for allowing a trainee to try and save a heart attack patient he knew had already died. "
Row as minister sacks drugs adviser - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Home Secretary Alan Johnson has come under fire after he forced the Government's chief drugs adviser to resign in the wake of a row over the dangers of different substances.
Mr Johnson asked Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying he had "lost confidence" in his ability to give impartial advice."
Drugs policy: Shooting up the messenger - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Professor David Nutt is an expert in his field: a professor of psychopharmacology at Bristol University and head of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. He knows more about the brain's responses to anxiety, addiction and sleep than any politician or media commentator. He is precisely the sort of man who should be helping the government shape its drugs policy, which is why he was appointed and then reappointed to serve as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs."
Ben Quinn: Professor Nutt's sacking shows how toxic the drugs debate has become - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Policy in the area has been a political battlefield for at least the last 40 years, and it shows no signs of getting any simpler, writes Ben Quinn"
Chief drug adviser David Nutt sacked over cannabis stance - The Guardian 30th October 2009
"Alan Johnson, the home secretary, has sacked Professor David Nutt as senior drugs adviser after the scientist renewed his criticism of the government's decision to toughen the law on cannabis.
Johnson wrote to Nutt saying he no longer had confidence in him as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and asking him to consider his position."
Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs - The Independent 31st October 2009
"The Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson asked Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying he had "lost confidence" in his ability to give impartial advice. "
Bosses to be told to offer more part-time work for parents - The Observer 25th October 2009
"Work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper wants firms that advertise in jobcentres to consider part-timers"
'Half not taking paternity leave' - The Guardian 20th October 2009
"Almost half of men are failing to take up their right to two weeks paternity leave after the birth of their children, mainly because they cannot afford to, new research has revealed.
Two out of five men are afraid to ask for flexible working arrangements because they think it would harm their career prospects, a widespread study of 4,500 parents in Britain also showed."
Working fathers want more time with their children too, says report - The Guardian 20th October 2009
"Working fathers are struggling to juggle the competing demands of family and career, according to a report that shows that they are just as uneasy with their work-life balance as mothers.
The report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) suggests that the long-running debate over the pressures experienced by working mothers, who strive to "have it all" – children and careers – is just as relevant to working fathers."
45% of new fathers not taking paternity leave, research shows - The Times 20th October 2009
"Almost half of all new fathers fail to take the two weeks of paternity leave that they are entitled to, research has found.
It also discovered that two in five fathers are too frightened to request flexible work to spend more time with their family in case it jeopardises their job prospects."
Hospital boss off to India to recruit doctors - The Whitehaven News 14th October 2009
"HOSPITAL bosses will travel to India later this month in a bid to recruit doctors to come and work in Cumbria.
During the past five years the North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has been struggling to fill a number of consultant posts at both Carlisle and Whitehaven."
Excessive maternity leave and huge sex discrimination payouts 'risk backfiring on women' - Daily Mail 15th October 2009
"Labour's equal rights laws risk harming the prospects of women in the workplace, one of Britain's top businesswomen said last night.
Nichola Pease, deputy chairman of JO Hambro capital management and a mother of three, said excessive maternity leave and eye-watering sex discrimination payouts could backfire on women. "
'Lying down' NHS staff reinstated - BBC Health News 14th October 2009
"Seven members of staff at Swindon's Great Western Hospital suspended for playing an internet game that involved them lying down have returned to work.
Great Western Hospitals Trust said it had made a decision not to dismiss any of those involved in the prank. "
Merseyside paramedics fear winter crisis as ambulances sit empty - Southport Visiter 7th October 2009
"MERSEYSIDE’S ambulances are sitting empty – because there is not enough staff to man them.
The region’s ambulance service cannot cover all its rostered shifts and is failing to get to patients quickly enough as a result."
Sharon Shoesmith was told of failings, court hears - The Guardian 8th October 2009
"Sharon Shoesmith, the former head of children's services at the centre of the Baby Peter case, was made aware of "very significant professional failings" in her department at Haringey before she was sacked, the high court heard today."
Sharon Shoesmith ‘sent text appeal to Ofsted inspector before dismissal’ - The Times 9th October 2009
"Sharon Shoesmith sent a text message to an Ofsted inspector urging her to include “anything positive” about Haringey children’s services in an emergency report just days before she was dismissed. "
Sharon Shoesmith’s text message comes back to haunt her in court - The Times 9th October 2009
"When Sharon Shoesmith pressed the button on her text message to the Ofsted inspector Heather Brown, little did she think that it would be read out in court a year later.
Would she have written a letter pleading for positive findings to be included in the report? It is unlikely. But a text? Where’s the harm in pinging a lighthearted plea to the personal mobile of someone who had been in and out of the department for the last three weeks?"
Social services boss in Baby P death case 'was sacked after witch-hunt and media storm' - Daily Mail 9th October 2009
"Sharon Shoesmith begged Government inspectors to put a 'positive' spin on the damning report which ended her career, it was revealed yesterday.
The woman whose staff failed Baby P was so intent on clinging to her £133,000-a-year job that she asked the watchdog to praise her failing department. "
Redundancies a last resort – health boss - The Whitehaven News 7th October 2009
"REDUNDANCY will be an absolute last resort for hospital bosses as they prepare to deal with the impact of the recession in years to come.
Carole Heatly, chief executive of the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, and West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven, gave the reassurance amid speculation about national cuts in public spending."
Sharon Shoesmith seeks compensation for sacking over Baby P - The Guardian 7th October 2009
"Shoesmith was the victim of 'flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice', her lawyers say"
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo