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Migration and public health

By Matteo Dembech Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 18, 2015

Matteo Dembech of the World Health Organisation (WHO) blogs on how WHO is working to improve the health of migrants, including those trying to cross the Mediterranean this summer and how Governments in the EU can help. Seventy-three million migrants are estimated to live in the WHO European Region. Since 2011, particularly those countries closest […]

Tagged With: migration, public health, Syria, World Health Organisation

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Peace prospects for Cyprus

Mustafa Cirakli By Fadil Ersozer and Mustafa Cirakli Filed Under: All posts, Europe Posted: June 16, 2015

 Mustafa Cirakli and Fadil Ersozer look at the latest developments in Cyprus, after one of the main players in negotiations gave a lecture in Manchester. The decades-old reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, which resumed in February last year, were unilaterally suspended by the Greek Cypriot side in October last year after an alleged violation […]

Tagged With: cyprus, Cyprus Problem, greek cypriot, turkish cypriot

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Privacy vs Security

Steve Furber By Steve Furber Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: June 12, 2015

As data protection becomes a hot topic again  with the publication of the ‘A Question of Trust‘ report, Professor Steve Furber asks if we should be worried. I have always assumed that government security agencies – GCHQ, NSA, etc – can snoop on what they like, when they like, and that this is in the interests […]

Tagged With: Big Brother, CCTV, data retention and investigation powers bill, Edward Snowden, European Court of Justice, GCHQ, NSA, Tesco

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Are we any closer to a solution in Cyprus?

George Kyris By George Kyris Filed Under: All posts, Europe Posted: June 3, 2015

As a change of leadership in Cyprus take place, could a solution to the decades old conflict be on the cards? George Kyris examines developments…. When Mustafa Akinci took to the podium for his first speech as the new leader of the Turkish Cypriots waving an olive branch it became obvious that his victory was […]

Tagged With: cyprus, greek cypriot, turkish cypriot

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Beyond the headlines on TTIP: Beware the fine print

Gabriel Siles-BrüggePicture of Dr Nicolette Butler By Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: June 1, 2015

Although much of the criticism in the UK of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused on the NHS and ‘corporate tribunals’, Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler argue that this overlooks one of its central purposes: a series of provisions that could make it more difficult for governments to regulate in the public […]

Tagged With: EU, European Commission, NHS, TTIP, US

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Why we need a health bill, but aren’t going to get one

Kieran Walshe By Kieran Walshe Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 29, 2015

Here Kieran Walshe reacts to the Queens Speech and comments on the lack of any mention of plans for healthcare. On seeing that the Queen’s Speech contained no proposed legislation on health and social care, many healthcare workers and managers may understandably have breathed a sigh of relief.  After the traumas of the Health and […]

Tagged With: Andrew Lansley, Care Quality Commission, Health and Social Care Act, healthcare, Primary Care Trusts, Queens Speech, Strategic Health Authority

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One Night in May [Part 1] – Whatever Happened to the Strange Death of Tory England?

Dave RichardsMartin Smith By Dave Richards and Martin Smith Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 22, 2015

In 2005, the political journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote a critique of the Conservative Party, The Strange Death of Tory England.  Here Dave Richards and Martin Smith explore this failed prophesy and examine the implications of GE2015 on the main parties. When Wheatcroft wrote his book the Conservative Party was yet to come to terms with […]

Tagged With: Conservative Party, GE2015, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP

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The good ship SS DevoManc: full steam ahead?

By Lawrence Benson Filed Under: All posts, Devo Posted: May 21, 2015

SS DevoManc has now set sail after a six weeks stopover in port during the general election. Dr Lawrence Benson tries to plot its course. Let’s recap on DevoManc. It’s about the devolution of power and resources from Westminster to the city region of Greater Manchester (GM), including for health and social care. This marks […]

Tagged With: devolution, DevoManc, European Health Observatory, Finland, general election, George Osborne, Greater Manchester, Manchester, NHS, northern ireland, Northern Powerhouse, Nye Bevan, social care, Sweden, World Health Organisation

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The truth about deflation: keep calm and carry on (for now)

Diane Coyle By Diane Coyle Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 19, 2015

As official Government figures show that the UK economy deflated in April, for the first time since the 1960’s, Diane Coyle looks at whether we should be worried. There was much excitement about the news that the UK’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 0.1% in the 12 months to April. A negative figure for […]

Tagged With: CPI, debt, deflation, economy, house prices, inflation, retail sales, RPI

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Oxbridge Universities are the go to places for academic research and expertise: but it’s not the whole story

Carole Talbot By Carole Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Whitehall Watch Posted: May 19, 2015

Can ‘outsider’ universities break the Oxbridge stranglehold on the Civil Service? Carole Talbot explores… It’s well understood that Whitehall Civil Servants go to Oxford and Cambridge Universities more often than elsewhere. And, many of the linkages into these universities are based on civil servants having attended one of the Oxbridge Colleges themselves and that the […]

Tagged With: Cambridge, Civil Service, Golden Triangle, LSE, Oxford University, UCL

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