I was on a website looking at Stansted transfers, when I saw an awful advert for steak. One thing that amazes me in this world is how people can justify to themselves the way in which they completely disregard the lives of some animals, yet they would practically defend others with their own life! There is a huge disconnect somewhere when someone values the life of a cat above all other things, because it is their own pet, yet they are willing to be part of the murder of hundreds of other animals each year. Why do humans think that they have the right to decide which lives have value and which ones do not?
The world is in a right old state. Economies are crumbling, the Euro looks like it’s going to go belly up any day now and jobs are being lost everywhere on a daily basis. In the UK it feels something akin to trying to play tennis with only one hand. You rush for every ball that sails over the net, but it’s becoming harder and harder to return it. Both the army and NHS have had their budgets cut or ‘redistributed’, but be assured that hope remains.
have been become increasingly available over the past year following the coalition’s decision to re-administrate the organisation. Following an election promise that involved ‘ring fencing'the NHS was anyone really that surprised when changes were proposed? Besides, putting trust money directly into the hands of local GPs to spend as they see fit might work. It does cut out the need for a middle man working in an office with budgets all over the desk. The danger lies in the time it will take away from GPs consulting and treating patients.
With finances being under the direct control of local practices, a lot of administration staff in hospitals and trusts is set to be reduced. This was the aim of the changes. Most of the public have been able to stomach this – even if it means a fair few middle managers lose their jobs in the process. What it has also meant is that more and more frontline jobs are set to be created. Doctor jobs, nurses jobs and clinical staff positions are to become more readily available. A quick check of the job listings shows that there are jobs available for newly qualified and experienced medical professionals. Yet questions remain over whether this will last?
Personally I think the reduction in hospital administration is a good thing. I recall the NHS spending millions of pounds on a new computerised filing system for all of the UK a few years ago, only to find that the system was faulty and could not be used properly. All of that money came from the taxpayer and ended up being a complete waste. The number of people employed to do basic admin jobs that could be done quickly by just one person was staggering.
Every hospital should have an administration department to help the trust function effectively, but the amount of people involved does need to be reduced. The old axiom of ‘too many cooks spoil the broth'is very true in the case of the NHS when it comes to administration. Doctors and nurses we can never have too many of, but to maintain filing and records accurately requires more focused attention. Having separate departments to deal with this can and has resulted in disaster over the past ten years. Whether you like it or not, a good portion of the blame does lie with the last government. Yes they built many new hospitals – which we couldn’t afford and are now crippling our finances – and introduced some good legislation. Unfortunately they also increased the administrative work ten fold creating jobs, but overly complicating and confusing an institution we all rely on.
It’s good to see more NHS jobs available for medical professionals. I just hope the momentum holds.
I was playing with my niece in the park and my poor sister almost went ballistic when she wiped her muddy hands across her head. My niece is three and very cute, my sister should be a feminist. What is going wrong. I took my sister aside to try to have a serious chat with her about why she felt she needed to keep her daughter so clean and tidy when she was having fun. Her answer gave me another clear option for saving the world.
Little girls are happier is they wear their hair short
My sister and her daughter have daily battles with the hair brush and the shampoo. Lilly hates to have her hair done in the bath or shower. She can’t stand the pain of having the tangles brushed out and she is not patient enough to sit still while her mother plaits it. My sister wants to cut it short, but her husband and mother in law keep saying how nice it looks long. Neither of them ever spend the time brushing it. They object to short hair because they say that people will think that Lilly is a boy.
There are so many ways to make sure that your little one is not mistaken for a boy. You can choose really colourful dress fabrics, hair ribbons and bands, pink shoes, or even go for the classic ear ring trick. In many cultures baby girls have their ears pierced from just a few weeks of age. I personally don’t buy into this, but the one moment of pain, as opposed to the daily fights seems like a reasonable trade off. The obvious solution is to stop caring what people think and just let children be themselves. It is far healthier to play in mixed gender groups doing fun and physical activities. Too many people think that it is biologically determined that girls should have long hair and play with princesses and fairies. I see from my niece, that this is really a media message pushed at them from a really early age and then repeated through positive and negative reinforcement of their peer group. My sister couldn’t take the pressure of the family and neighbours to stand up for fun and dirt. So the year end action group is offering free hair cuts to any little girl who wants one like Hermione. She is the ultimate role model for cool kids. Everybody give a cheer for Emma.
I was playing with my niece in the park and my poor sister almost went ballistic when she wiped her muddy hands across her head. My niece is three and very cute, my sister should be a feminist. What is going wrong. I took my sister aside to try to have a serious chat with her about why she felt she needed to keep her daughter so clean and tidy when she was having fun. Her answer gave me another clear option for saving the world.
Little girls are happier is they wear their hair short
My sister and her daughter have daily battles with the hair brush and the shampoo. Lilly hates to have her hair done in the bath or shower. She can’t stand the pain of having the tangles brushed out and she is not patient enough to sit still while her mother plaits it. My sister wants to cut it short, but her husband and mother in law keep saying how nice it looks long. Neither of them ever spend the time brushing it. They object to short hair because they say that people will think that Lilly is a boy.
There are so many ways to make sure that your little one is not mistaken for a boy. You can choose really colourful dress fabrics, hair ribbons and bands, pink shoes, or even go for the classic ear ring trick. In many cultures baby girls have their ears pierced from just a few weeks of age. I personally don’t buy into this, but the one moment of pain, as opposed to the daily fights seems like a reasonable trade off. The obvious solution is to stop caring what people think and just let children be themselves. It is far healthier to play in mixed gender groups doing fun and physical activities. Too many people think that it is biologically determined that girls should have long hair and play with princesses and fairies. I see from my niece, that this is really a media message pushed at them from a really early age and then repeated through positive and negative reinforcement of their peer group. My sister couldn’t take the pressure of the family and neighbours to stand up for fun and dirt. So the year end action group is offering free hair cuts to any little girl who wants one like Hermione. She is the ultimate role model for cool kids. Everybody give a cheer for Emma.
This is one thing that I want to get rid off before the year ends. The tendency of drivers to behave like maniacs on the road is plain stupid. Sure, people get ticked off by their bosses or get dumped by their partners. Spouse cheat and kids don’t give respect. What is the point of taking it all out on the accelerator? People drive at top speeds and end up crashing into each other. What is more, they get out More
1) They will last forever. Not good for the animals when they end up in the sea choking them to death, is it?
2) They are wasteful: wouldn’t card or paper be a better material? They also cover just about everything in a supermarket. 3) The process of producing them creates all kinds of toxic fumes and vapours which are absolutely rubbish. 4) We’ve become addicted to them, which More
I’m just getting back into going to the gym, after a long time of lazing about on my backside doing no exercise and eating lots of cake. It was when I tried to play football with some mates the other week and ended up a wheezing, sweating mess – with all my supposed friends standing around and laughing at me – that I decided something had to be done. I’m taking it slowly at first. A bit of swimming, bit More
There must be something about my face or my body language that makes me look suspicious. How else do you explain the fact that I always – and I mean ALWAYS – get pulled aside by the security chaps at airports. Sometimes it’s just for an extra swipe with the plastic thing, but every now and then More
Many people are fed up with their jobs. The nearly three million unemployed in the UK though might have something to say about that though. So when does it get to the point that your job has become so unbearable that you need to leave. I’ll try to offer some rounded advice as well as my usual rant to prevent you from getting depressed or angry. More
An office located in Germany dedicated to hackers whose work isn’t interrupted by the government has shown us to what extent our private security should extend. Usually, hackers don’t have a good name on the world wide perception. There has only been a hand few of cases where people have sent out viruses to users irrespective of who they are, just for the kicks. However, most of the hackers, in the ages before and even now have something that even More
