2021-05-14T04:30:00+01:00
In this week’s podcast we discuss how the government’s health and social care legislation plans are changing both in substance and in context.
That includes government concessions on some crucial legal details, ministers’ new priorities for the service, getting to grips with implementation, and what the change in NHS England’s chief executive chief might mean.
Featuring Sharon Brennan, Dave West and Annabelle Collins.
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2021-05-07T04:30:00+01:00
With Sir Simon Stevens stepping down from the NHS’ top job in July, the 12-week countdown to find a successor begins.
This week, Alastair McLellan, Dave West and Annabelle Collins discuss the recruitment process, who’s involved and why we could end up with an interim instead.
We discuss the front-runners in more detail and whether someone with a narrower, more operational focus than Sir Simon might be the preference of government.
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2021-04-30T06:00:00+01:00
The NHS and, indeed, the world has been watching the catastrophic covid surge in India, with almost 400,000 cases recorded in a single day.
This week, we are joined by a member of our India office who describes the impact this has had on her family and how “disease and death has become so much a part of the everyday conversation”.
We hear how social media has become an important tool for families desperately searching for a hospital bed.
We also take the discussion closer to home and cover the creeping pressure on primary and secondary care, with some GPs shutting down patient self-referral systems for fear of becoming swamped over the weekend.
Saf Malik
April 29, 2021
After LG confirmed the demise of its mobile division in early April, we gathered the industry’s thoughts
The demise of LG’s mobile division after 25 years was confirmed on April 5, with the disbanding of its smartphone operations expected to conclude by this summer.
Despite once being one of the world’s premium smartphone vendors, the South Korean company had seen 23 straight quarters of loss in the sector and struggled to gain any sort of foothold in the market in recent times.
LG’s mobile market share had steadily declined throughout the 2010s from eight per cent in 2008 to just one per cent last year.
The city of Harrisburg announced on Friday that it has launched a now online tool to report potholes. Last year the city launched an online tool to report fireworks.