Don’t care
19/09/2024
This week Jo discusses the fear of privatising the health service, but points out that in some cases it already is.
BRUNTWOOD SCITECH CELEBRATES TOPPING OUT OF INNOVATIVE LAB AND WORKSPACE, CITYLABS 4.0
20/06/2024
Bruntwood SciTech has announced the topping out of its innovative lab and workspace, Citylabs 4.0 (the latest addition to the Citylabs health innovation campus run in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust).
An Event held on Wednesday 19th June, attended by partners, contractors and customers, celebrated this key milestone for the market-leading science and technology project.
Jo Henney, CEO of Nugent reacts to Wes Streeting’s interview on ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’
18/06/2024
Off the back of Wes Streeting’s interview on ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, where he said “on social care [he] would have wanted [Labour’s] manifesto to be more ambitious”, Jo Henney, CEO of Nugent, a charity dedicated to caring for, educating, and protecting vulnerable children, young people and adults through schools, care homes, and community and social work services, shares her response and thoughts on the future of Social care.
Green retreat as Europe burns
27/07/2023
Jim looks forward to more difficult by elections for the government and fears for the green agenda after last week’s contests.
In the public interest
13/07/2023
Is the reporting of the sexually deviant behaviour of a BBC employee really ‘in the public interest’?
Happy Birthday Brexit
02/02/2023
Brexit isn’t working. Frank McKenna’s latest Downtown blog.
Never mind tax cuts… what about reform?
14/07/2022
Why is the Tory leadership race dominated by an arms race on tax cuts? Jim argues that the candidates should be talking about reform of our collapsing public services. He also celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.
Tax hike will not fix social care – and NHS needs reform as much as it needs cash
08/09/2021
Heresy? Frank McKenna argues that the NHS needs radical reform more than it needs cash – and that this week’s tax hike will not improve social care as promised.
The Third Way on Covid
22/07/2021
Ryan Wain from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change discusses how the way beyond Covid isn’t a binary choice between lockdowns and ‘freedom day’, there is infact a third way.
Level with us… Don’t Lie
23/04/2020
This week Jim calls for more plain speaking from the government and looks at the grim prospects facing our pubs and restaurants.
A Long Way Back
16/04/2020
The government is unable to give business a clear back to work strategy because of the lack of testing, Jim claims in his latest blog. He also takes a close look at the North West Labour MPs in Keir Starmer’s new team.
Pharmacy donates hand sanitiser to all Trust staff
02/04/2020
A Preston-based family owned and run pharmacy chain has donated a shipment of 10,000 mini bottles of hand sanitiser to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity for distribution across its Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital sites.