Emeritus Prof Christopher May

4 days ago

@wanwizard

Yup, my first academic job was on a business school project looking at outsourcing, and I reached exactly the same conclusion, even after I had accepted the logic of core-competences & gains from specialism - all the advantages that might be theorised were hoovered up into profits not enhanced anything!

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4 days ago

@BashStKid

Exactly, otherwise (in that hackneyed phrase) its 'just rearranging deckchairs on the deck of the Titanic'!

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4 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 Well, quite. Everyone knows private hospitals don’t do intensive/er work, and the sector’s full of NHS staff doing extra shifts.
If this is going to be at all temporarily useful, there must be armtwisting to reduce charges and increase throughput *without* causing a consequent problem in the NHS. And not the thin end of the wedge.

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4 days ago

@djr2024

Yes, I've heard this before about Alan Milburn... he's also the Chancellor of Lancaster University & I'm not so sure he's been a good influence there either....

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4 days ago

@Lazarou

Is this what you were thinking of?

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-support-fund-lsf

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4 days ago

The UK's has a parasitic relationship with the health services in developing countries - whether its been worsened recently by budget cuts to bilateral support programmes is hardly the point.

The UK should not be hiring away nurses from developing countries once those counties have paid for their training; another seemingly temporary stop-gap for the NHS crisis that has become an abusive & exploitative situation.

We need to be training more of our own nurses!

#health

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/06/uk-cuts-health-aid-vulnerable-countries-recruiting-nurses-analysis-royal-college-nursing-research

Tags: #health

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4 days ago

@anxiousmac

ha ha,. ooops, typing too much about GDP produced that error... will correct!

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4 days ago

And, as warned (expected) Keir Starmer (and We Streeting) are expanding the amount of work the NHS hands off to the private sector as a way of 'dealing' with the NHS crisis... of course, this is a solution that looks at capacity (which of course needs to be expanded) rather than at the costs of provision.... to expand capacity by adding high-cost private contractors, may be a short-term sticking plaster but of course 'robs Peter to pay Paul'!

#Health #NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/06/private-sector-cutting-nhs-waiting-lists-england-keir-starmer

Tags: #health #nhs

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4 days ago

Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the Advisor on Ministerial Standards to ascertain whether she has breached the ministerial code by retaining a £650K flat she was given as part of a recompense for her parents support of someone close to the Bangladesh Govt.

This was in the FT on Friday & has been subject to other commentary over the weekend.

As I said before, whatever the merits of the case this agains shows our political class live in a different world to us...

#politics
h/t FT

Tags: #politics #politics

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4 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @christineburns Still the best summary I've seen:

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4 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6

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4 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 the UK just off the bottom

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4 days ago

@maggiejk @MatryoshkaLimit

know that feeling

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4 days ago

@h4890

well, I had in it in the managed fund for three years, and the passive fund started recovery around 18 months before a rather anaemic recovery in the managed fund (hence the switch), so your estimate looks about right.... and fits (as it happens) with fiscal lags from interest rate policy

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4 days ago

@h4890

That's certainly what's behind the Gary Player saying

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4 days ago

@h4890

Yes, its a really good Q.; on the change, when I've occasionally seen it happen its pretty much always been linked to a personal crisis (which switches round the assessment of the status quo, because you are suddenly at the sharp end).... on where they come from; for me there's a Jesuitical thing here; as they say, given me the big 'til seven & I'll give you the man'.... there's a lot of influence from parents but not necessarily intended influence....

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4 days ago

@christineburns

Yes, its a crown that is not particularly appealing!

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4 days ago

@h4890 @stiefel_fan

aha, yes I can see that; how do you feel about non-obstructive picketing?

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4 days ago

@Nicovel0 @RationalBrit @cmsdengl

I soooo wish that was the strategy

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4 days ago

@The_Caretaker

Yup, for this of us who know the history the irony of it all is hard to stomach

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