Wealth on Health

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Huge pay rises for shamed hospital bosses… including one who had an affair with patient safety executive Twelve NHS trusts in England are ’significantly underperforming’ according to the new report

The report by healthcare analysts Dr Foster found that 12 trusts are putting patients at serious risk because of life-threatening errors and ’systemic’ safety failings – even though eight of them were praised as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ by the Care Quality Commission health watchdog only last month.

It also found that 27 trusts – a fifth of the total – have unusually high death rates – equating to almost 5,000 excess deaths.

More than half of the 27 are supposedly elite foundation trusts. The joint-tenth-worst, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, is said by Dr Foster to have a death rate 15 per cent higher than the national average.

Yet its chief executive, Julian Hartley, saw his pay rise by 32 per cent from £125,000 to £165,000 when his trust attained foundation status in December 2007. He has now left to join South Manchester, another of the least-safe trusts on the list.

Little Johnny, why we love him.

The teacher asked the class to use the word ‘fascinate’ in a sentence.

Molly put up her hand and said, ‘My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating.
The teacher said, ‘that was good, but I wanted you to use the word fascinate, not fascinating’.
Sally raised her hand. She said, ‘my family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.’
The teacher said, ‘well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.
Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before.
She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word ‘fascinate’, so she called on him.
Johnny said, ‘My aunt Gina has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight.’
The teacher sat down and cried.

Dead in three months. Labour should die sooner.

clipped from order-order.com Three Months Later, Megrahi Lives It was only 90 days ago that we were told that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi had only three months to live. Well he lives and breathes today. Officials in Libya last week confirmed that Megrahi had been discharged from Tripoli Medical Centre. Colonel Gaddafi’s regime has publicly declared its hope that “a miracle from God” would preserve al Megrahi’s life. Guido is ashamed to say that he is a bit more cynical…

The Scottish Kirk wrapped a convicted man in Muslim cloth and sent him off to confession in the dessert of Human Kindness, nursed by the murderers of WPC Fletcher, with the Blessing of the Son of Manse. As they all prayed at the altar of Blindness a single voice was heard to call out, “Jesus save us.”
The twenty million pilgrims heard this lone voice and the worshipper was stoned to death. The crowd in Mecca cheered and called out, “Allah is merciful.” Will these Gods help Labour, the SNP and all the others who usurp the ancient laws for modern commercialism? Only history, or the voters, can say that. But they won’t. Labour voters will vote in a four legged donkey as long as they are Labour. They could have a perfectly decent candidate but that has never mattered with labour Voters.

Mental stress

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Traumatised troops get payout pittance after Afghanistan and Iraq Neil Christie felt the army washed its hands of him Since November 2005 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid 155 mentally traumatised soldiers, who experience delusions, hallucinations, flashbacks and severe depression, an average of just under £6,000, according to official figures. Four others received payments above £9,075. Sir John Major, the former prime minister, is so concerned by the low payouts that he has written to Gordon Brown to object in what aides describe as “the strongest possible terms”.

I cannot agree with some blogs about the causes of so much stress for soldiers, but I wholehearted concur that any compensation is derisory.

The MPs watchdog.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk MPs’ standards chief quits over expenses The head of the Commons standards body has stepped down pending an inquiry into his own expenses – a few weeks after being appointed. The Daily Telegraph alleged Tory MP David Curry claimed nearly £30,000 for a second home that his wife had barred him from using after he had an affair.

What most reports have omitted is that Mr Curry is on another committee which is to rule on the future of MP’s expenses and behaviour.
Small wonder there is no trust in MP’s!!!

Ten years on – TPA video

This is the legacy of your vote for Labour. Add this to the dilution of your vote – immigrants have exactly the same voting right as you and they use theirs – whether illegal or not.
There are independant people out there who are standing for parliament and need your help. just you X will do to get rid of this corrupt Parliament.
See what they are doing with all the bent MP’s! ending them to the Lords when most would prefer to dispatch them to the Heavens.

Censorship on the Net

clipped from ianburrell.independentminds.livejournal.com PCC to regulate UK bloggers? Baroness Buscombe, the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, has ambitions for her organisation that go beyond the traditional newspaper companies. She wants to examine the possibility that the PCC’s role should be extended to cover the blogosphere, which is becoming an increasing source of breaking news and boasts some of the media’s highest-profile commentators, such as the political bloggers Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes. Do readers of such sites, and people mentioned on them, deserve the same rights of redress that the PCC offers in respect of newspapers and their sites?

1984 and all that.
With the BBC still reeling from its first real taste of freedom when it begrudgingly let Nick Griffiths appear on QT, the Labour control thugs want to silence the whole world.
Simple response. I will move my site abroad and pay for the privilege.

British children scandal

clipped from www.eveningtimes.co.uk Hundreds of city kids fail nutrition test

The article goes on…MORE than 150 children in Glasgow were found to be suffering from malnutrition after being screened for the condition.

A pilot study found that 10% of more than 1,000 children tested on admission to hospital had the condition as a result of poor diet or chronic illness.

The pilot was held for a new screening system that has been developed in the city. The tool, believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, can identify children aged from one year who are suffering from malnutrition or are at risk of developing it.

It was created by dietary and medical experts at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill and is based on a simple scoring system.

Doctors say the Paediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS) could be adapted for use in the community to help identify children at risk of malnutrition or obesity which puts them at risk in later life of cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

A pilot of 1571 carried out at the hospital showed that 157 were suffering from malnutrition. A further 10% were classified as obese.

Britain’s forgotten deportees

clipped from www.etaiwannews.com Pain haunts Australia’s ‘forgotten’ children for decades Kids thought to be uncontrollable, have family problems are sent away Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, doing what a British Prime Minister ought to have done sixty years ago, addressing a wrong.

To add insult to injury, Britain’s Prime Minister has not apologised and yet someone within the powers-that-be has decided that the public envoy should be Baroness Amos. If I was not a racist before, I most certainly would be a racist after this.

Situation Vacant

The interviewer asks him, “Are you allergic to anything?”
He says “Yes – just caffeine.”
“‘Have you ever been in the service?”
“Yes,’ he says. ‘I was in Iraq for two years.”
The interviewer says, “That will give you 5 extra points toward employment,” and then asks, “Are you disabled in any way?”
The guy says, “Yes 100% …an IED exploded near me and blew my testicles off.”
The interviewer tells the guy, “O.K. In that case, I can hire you right now.

Normal hours are from 8 AM to 4 PM. You can start tomorrow at 10:00 AM – and plan on starting at 10 AM every day.”
The guy is puzzled and says, “If the hours are from 8 AM to 4 PM, why don’t you want me to be here before 10 AM?”
“‘This is a government job, Procurement Officer at the MoD,” the interviewer says. “For the first two hours we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. No point in you coming in for that.”