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There is still some debate over The Junior Doctor at the focus of the Paice, Black, Needham gossip case. Is he still suspended or is he not? Here is The Oldest Sage Witch’s opinion, for what it is worth: The problem is that regardless of the rights or wrongs of what this doctor may have said

” The GPC will aim to get polyclinics blocked by local government in the next phase of its campaign to support general practice. Following the 1.2 million-signature petition supporting existing surgeries, a follow-up campaign aiming to keep the momentum is set to be launched in the next few

Glory be, they are all rising like phoenixes! (Except Dr Crippen. What’s happened to Crippen anyway? He vanished last year and caused quite a stir! A break he calls it. A break! Only MP’s have a break like this! Is he locked up in The Tower? ) Anyway, the rest are all back blogging! Some have never left, of course, except to put up the “GONE FISHING” notice when they need a holiday.

On the Parliament Channel, coverage of the House of Commons takes precedence over the House of Lords.  I understand why the Commons takes precedence, but a friend, Ken Batty, has raised with me the question of why there needs to be a hierarchy.  Why cannot coverage be split-screen, enabling viewers

Now let me think about that one. A cross party committee in the House of Commons states that the UK should have a Bill of Rights - but as with everything else the political wrangling will slow any legislation down. You can ask why. It is a matter that, even though it was a cross party [...]

The Joint Committee on Human Rights of the House of Lords and the House of Commons has published a report called ’A Bill of Rights for the UK? Twenty-ninth Report of Session 2007–08’ (HL Paper 165-I, HC 150-I; published 10 August 2008): http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/165/165i.pdf The report outlines a future UK Bill of Rights.

by Janet Manley Though Denver began as a strip of saloons and brothels blown together on the Platte River, today the area has achieved the atmosphere of a whimsical English seaside town, with an accompanying innocence and frivolity.

On 14 May 2008 the Government published the Draft Legislative Programme for 2008-09. The public consultation on the programme concludes on 6 August 2008. The Government will now be considering the responses received during the consultation and will publish a summary of reponses in the autumn, ahead of the Queen’s Speech which will take place on 3 December 2008.

A week with the wind and the rain in his hair has refreshed The Jobbing Doctor. He’s back! With thoughts of Orwell, he’s back! MISSION PARTIALLY ACCOMPLISHED But the mission so far, is only partially accomplished. Will it be fully accomplished? That is up to patients and doctors.

FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED CARE PILOTS Forgive me. I’m sure it is due to the weakness of an aging witches brain, but I cannot find any meat to chew over in this statement by The NHS Alliance. Or, in The Darzi Report either, for that matter. Perhaps the younger witches will be able to forage away till they find something I’m missing.