This one, as they say, will run and run. The government has just announced that hospitals will not be paid if they put people into mixed-sex wards, unless there is clinical need (BBC, Guardian, Times).
First, one wonders why we should never have mixed-sex wards. Clearly it is more efficient to have some mixed-sex wards. If [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Hospital wards
January 15, 2009
Londoncentric
This week I had reason to read through last summer’s Communities white paper, and it just reminded me quite how Londoncentric our government can be.
In its more serious guise, the inability to see beyond the M25 has serious policy implications. As an example, the idea of choice in schooling makes more sense in the metropolis [...]
