Nothing inflames (geddit?!) the public like hospital parking fees - but the people of Hastings have gone a step further. The bonfire society built three 40ft pig effigies with snouts in a giant trough, which were torched in an early bonfire night celebration.
One was labelled “bankers”, the second “politicians”, and the third “NHS car parking” - a reference, the society says, to high car parking fees at hospitals.
The scientist and novelist C P Snow’s famous 1959 lecture and book describes The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities as having become polarised.
The debate continues over which NHS staff should stay home. Many non-clinicians, and even some clinicians, are deeply unhappy with their employers’ instructions to come to work – which seems at odds with government advice.
This editorial is not meant as a criticism of the efforts being made by the centre or senior managers working at a local level. HSJ knows better than most how hard they are working and – in most cases – how effective they are being.
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