Edward Nickell – Sinking Europe under the weight of its servers, one p...

Since the General Election we’ve seen bold statements on reducing agency spend in the NHS.  It’s an area with great potential savings, but it also depends on shifting agency and locum work back onto a permanent basis.  Unfortunately, the government’s...

The recent elections in the devolved regions haven’t captured much attention in the health sector. It’s easy to forget, with so much going on with DevoManc, that 10 million people in the UK already have health systems that are devolved to an even greater...

Nick Clegg recently revealed a manifesto pledge to hand responsibility for drugs misuse policy from the Home Office to the Department of Health, calling the current policy idiotic because addiction should be treated as a health problem, not a criminal...

Cathleen ni Houlihan is the female personification of Ireland. She is depicted as an old woman, with her four fields (the provinces of Ireland) taken from her and left homeless. Yeat’s one act play tells of how she persuaded young Irish men to go off...