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Eruption victims
Airlines are not the only industry left counting the cost of the flight ban. Many of the illustrious speakers at health conferences were left stranded at home or contending with epic trans-continental journeys.
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Compare-the-primary-care-provider.com
Comparethemarket.com, helped to fame by a Russian meerkat, was evoked at last week’s Unison conference during an anti-privatisation rant.
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Boozy insult
Delegates at Unison’s annual health conference were shocked and appalled when a fringe event speaker presented a list of headlines generated by the Boorman NHS health and wellbeing review.
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Blackberry boost
A new whizzy bit of audience participation technology appeared last week at an HSJ conference, allowing delegates to text questions to the chair, where they pop up on a screen for the panel to answer.
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CommunityWhat kind of manager are you?
In case NHS managers were in any doubt as to whether the public spending pressures were their fault, a press release last week blamed the recession on “shocking management skills and standards”.
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Dickensian stats
The award for the most ingenious use of a misleading statistic in a manifesto goes to (drum roll please…) the Tories, for the following: “The difference in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas in our country is now greater than during Victorian times.”
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Clare Chapman
Department of Health director general of workforce Clare Chapman looks like a younger version of actress Angela Lansbury, who played TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.
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Mass appeal
The Conservatives promise in their manifesto to provide communities with ringfenced public health cash, “weighting public health funding towards the poorest areas with the worst health outcomes”.
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Richard Vize and Harry Hill
As readers may have heard, HSJ editor Richard Vize is leaving us this week to take up a tricky new post as spin doctor in chief at education regulator Ofsted.
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Fessing up
Most of our readers spotted the date - 1 April - on the “important notice” we emailed last week, warning that a technical error had caused our website to publish the names of anonymous commentators.
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CommunityFarewell, Tim Kelsey
Dr Foster founder Tim Kelsey’s leaving do invitation depicts him as John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn, the “fearless one-eyed marshall who never knew a dry day in his life”.
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CommunityMerron Watch - the election campaign
Purdah left last week’s DH media diary rather empty, but as always Gillian Merron was an unstoppable whirlwind of activity.
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see Date Night
Subscribers can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Date Night. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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People's princess
Baroness Young appears to be mellowing quickly in her retirement. End Game’s ears twitched as the former Care Quality Commission chair turned up in a feature about quangos on Radio 4’s Westminster Hour last week.
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A little local trouble
Pity poor Katie Myler. Health secretary Andy Burnham’s special adviser and former GMTV correspondent is not only charged with explaining to the press the subtle differences between a target and a patient entitlement, she has also been lumbered with tricky media relations much closer to home.
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And you thought you had a long commute
If you’ve ever bemoaned your morning journey into work, spare a thought for Janet Clark, head of strategy at the Mayday Hospital in Croydon, south London, who has to commute more than 3,000 miles every day from her home in Canada.
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How to become a tsar
Some fresh insights into the baffling world of becoming a national clinical director from the public administration committee’s recent report, Goats and Tsars.