Record number of elderly forced to stay in hospital – Telegraph

November 24, 2013 By dralfoldman in Austerity, Business Administration, Elderly, Healthcare, NHS, Politics, UK Tags: David Cameron, Government, Government of the United Kingdom, local government, National Health Service, Nursing home, Social work, Telegraph 3 Comments

Union of Health and Social Care Professionals

Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This article from the Telegraph is WELL WORTH a read. Check it out!

Record number of elderly forced to stay in hospital – Telegraph.

Personally, I struggle to see why the politicians and the bureaucrats distinguish between two crises, namely the hospitals and social care?

Surely, the time has come to recognize the true catastrophic state of the overall crisis, in UK healthcare?

Why don’t the Government extract social care from ineffective local authority management?

Any thoughts?

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The Jobs Recovery Is Always Two Years Away – David Lizoain – Social Europe Journal

November 24, 2013 By dralfoldman in Business Administration, Euro Crisis, Growth, Unemployment Tags: Austerity, European Commission, European Union, IMF, Multilateral, Social Europe Journal 2 Comments

This is a MUST READ article by David Lizoain in Social Europe Journal. Check it out!

via The Jobs Recovery Is Always Two Years Away – Social Europe Journal.

The European Commission, the high priests of austerity, have a terrible record in their forecasts for unemployment. Most serious economists and the IMF maintain that the European Commission’s policies on austerity have been too severe and have caused huge unnecessary economic and social pain across Europe, especially Southern Europe.

This turn me to an open question:

Who will hold the European Commission to account for their failures?

Any thoughts?

European flag outside the Commission

European flag outside the Commission (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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