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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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Interview in Sweden
Here is an interview I did earlier this year in Sweden. http://www.axess.se/tv/program.aspx?id=2666
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, European Union, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Pensions, Politics, Unemployment, Welfare benefits
“Confused? You will be….”
I am on the road, interviewing people in Holland as part of the research for my new book. Yesterday was confusing. I visited a think tank in the morning and a couple of academics in the afternoon. In both cases … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Healthcare and the NHS
Greedy capitalists defiling healthcare?
Some would say that this is an ugly example of what happens when greedy capitalists get involved in healthcare. I suspect a more nuanced reaction should be ‘this is what goes wrong when the interaction between government funding and private … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Healthcare and the NHS
A better way to run a hospital?
A different way to manage a hospital. This is from the website of OLVG, a big hospital in Amsterdam. It sounds like a better system than total control from the centre. The organisation of the OLVG consists of business units … Continue reading
The best article I have read this year
It is by Tom Utley in the Daily Mail today. He is an unusual writer. He often writes about personal stuff and always in a very engaging way. Today’s article is rhetoric at its best. A good point, powerfully made. … Continue reading
British surgery is years behind that of the rest of the advanced world
Patients are dying because the NHS is too slow to adopt better ways of doing surgery, according to the country’s most senior surgeon. Britain lags decades behind other countries in using safer and less invasive forms of surgery because only … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Healthcare and the NHS
Over-training puts up prices -nice for cartels of doctors, pharmacies etc but bad for everybody else
One of the reasons why medical care is so expensive in Britain and America, I suspect, is the number of doctors is limited in various ways and the training is so long. I have yet not accumulated the evidence I … Continue reading
Sweden is not Marilyn Munroe
(This is the unedited version of an article which appeared recently in the Spectator) Sweden is iconic like Marilyn Munroe or Karl Marx. It is supposed to stand for something special: a kind of socialist paradise where socialism and a … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Politics, Welfare benefits
Italy and Sweden – worlds apart
I have done two highly contrasting trips in the past few months. First Italy and then Sweden. In both cases, the trips were prompted by other things but I used them to research a new book I am writing about … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book
How many Canadians leave the country to get healthcare
Perhaps this could be used as a measure of how good is a country’s healthcare system. Article here. I have never looked into the Canadian system but I have heard that it is the closest thing to Britain’s post-war model … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Healthcare and the NHS