Deaths and U-Turns

Not the Brightest

Following a huge explosion in a gunpowder factory, an inquiry was held. One of the few survivors was questioned and was asked for his account of what happened. The conversation went something like this

      

"Well, sir, it's like this. Old Charley was in the mixing room, and I saw him take a cigarette out of his pocket and light up."

"He was smoking in the mixing room, how long had he been with the company?"

"About 20 years, sir"

"20 years in the company, then he goes and lights a cigarette in the mixing room, I'd have thought it would have been the last thing he'd have done."

"It was, sir." 

News Bites

There is one news items we cannot ignore today, the sad and appalling deaths at the Stoke hospital.


Sometimes we have to think the unthinkable. The country is in a financial mess, and every penny we can save will help.
We have the Liverpool 'Pathway', designed to speed up a patients death and so lesson their discomfort. I guess it will save the Government all those pension payouts that could go on for years and years, not to mention the costs associated with looking after them
I can't help but link these two events. Hundreds of lives lost, Hundreds of pension payouts saved. Could it really have gone unnoticed by the nursing staff, their management, and all the other organisations above them, The Health Trust, The Nursing Bodies, The Medical Bodies and the Governments own Health Ministry.
Could this be a bit of social engineering experiment gone too far? 

Trainer Talk

Still working  on the Front Line Manager Technical Programme Modules.Sadly got distracted by trying to find some graphics for another project.

I also have to comments on the Governments U-turn on education. They have decided to drop the plan to replace GCSEs with an English Baccalaureate,and they are hoping that Chris Huhne's wife will take the blame

Bur seriously, they did have one good idea that the have also U-turned on. The idea of replacing the SEVEN examination bodies with one. Why do we need SEVEN?

China, with its 1.3 billion people can do it with one, so why can't we? In China every child in every school sits down at the same time and sits the same examination paper.

I cannot see any reason why such a tiny country as the the UK cannot do the same. 

Seven bodies, means seven sets of administrators, seven people with inflated salaries to oversee each administration. It can only be jobs for the boys, 

Come on Mr Gove, U-Turn your U-Turn

Thought for the Day?

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