according to the NAO, the 2023 NHSE Emergency care strategy isn't working. None of the previous strategies worked either. It is time for a complete rethink: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

The mythbuster: The NHS needs to start from scratch on A&E strategy

The NHS's latest A&E strategy has failed because it focused on the wrong problems, yet the same flawed assumptions appear to be shaping the next attempt

hsj.co.uk

I would be embarrassed to push a piece of software that lied to and defamed its users like this.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

What kind of utter pervert would want this, and can we put a hit out on them?

Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️@mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Pace the frontier immediately!

"This attack on misinformation is an attack on us" is quite the line for a political party to take.

The recent NAO report on NHSE's emergency care strategy uses some very gentle language to make some very damning claims. and it is 50 pages long: www.nao.org.uk/reports/mana... Here is my simple summary...

Managing the flow of patients through hospital from A&E  - NAO report

This report looks at how well patients flow through A&E into the wider hospital in England and at the support NHSE provides.

nao.org.uk

Trump doesn’t care a bit about Ukrainian civilians as he starves Ukraine of air defense. But he is terrified about the damage to Putin’s oil industry. Why is that?

When discussing NHS productivity it is common to argue that the problem is intractable because the Baumol effect. This is blatant nonsense. Here is why...

Kurt Vonnegut, writing in 1959

I get a surprising number of messages from people who’ve used ChatGPT to prove their pet theory. Always ChatGPT. And often mad. So I did a little test. Seems ChatGPT is much more ready to validate crazy theories than its rivals. Why?

I think the public would be very surprised to find out how much of NHS management is really just clinicians winging it based the perception they're "clever"

Here is an analogy that illustrates why NHS manager regulation is a ridiculous approach to improving the quality of management: ...

Too much of the Thirwall report is about blame assignment not fixing the problem: www.hsj.co.uk/comment/emba...

Embarrassing Thirlwall is wrong about NHS management

The Thirlwall inquiry may be of some use to the families involved, but its summary findings and recommendations are patronising, confusing and in some cases plain ignorant, says HSJ editor Alastair Mc...

hsj.co.uk

Helen Whately on Sky News: "We want to bring down the tax burden on working people. Kemi has asked her economic unit for a fiscally responsible way to bring down inheritance tax, another tax that hits hard working people hard." One of the dumbest people in politics. Liz Truss levels of stupid.

Please please do not let the news media shape your opinion of AI, they haven't got a clue. Plus they're always searching for a juicy headline like 'The world will end in a decade'. Look elsewhere. Here's a good start.

Canada has a total ban on company/corporate donations. Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions and it's capped at $1,750 a year. They still have functioning parties and the sky hasn't fallen in. Quite the opposite... www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

"$30 or $40 a barrel"

J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

ALT: J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Burgum on Venezuela: "President Trump, the deal that was just cut recently, will allow us to refill the strategic petroleum reserve perhaps as low as $30 or $40 a barrel."

Danny Tommo (real name Daniel Thomas) was stopped driving someone else’s car without insurance and, naturally, calls it persecution. The police car had ANPR. His plate flagged. He was stopped using TPAC. That’s not persecution. It's the system working. And "I'm on my way to church” doesn't wash.

Today is the 152nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in New Orleans history, when 5,000 members of the Crescent City White League overthrew the Louisiana government in an armed assault that left at least 35 dead. The attack was a turning point in Reconstruction www.nola.com/gambit/comme...

John Stanton: Marking the anniversary of the 1874 terrorist attack on New Orleans

Sept. 14 marks the 152nd anniversary of the terrorist attack on New Orleans by the Crescent City White League, the white nationalist organization made up of former Confederate soldiers and led by weal...

nola.com

Homeopathy is alive and well in the NHS: the system and many commentators believe that less management is more effective than more management: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

The mythbuster: Abolishing NHS boards is a ludicrous idea

Comparing NHS trust boards to Tesco relies on flawed economics and resurrects the dangerous idea the NHS has too many managers, says Steve Black

hsj.co.uk

1938: Hitler has clearly laid out his ambitions on Sudetenland. We have the rest of the deal sorted out to avoid future war. Czechoslovakia does not want to do that.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w ago

Kushner on Ukraine: “President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” Putin’s brain cell

Essentially indistinguishable from Putin propaganda

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w ago

Kushner on Ukraine: “President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” Putin’s brain cell

The person who put the 0 and the o adjacent on a computer keyboard should rot in hell.

I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3w ago

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

Just a reminder. It was exactly 2 months ago that Trump “promised” to get Ukraine a license to build Patriots. Since then it’s been all backtracking and lies. It was always a plan to help Putin by further delaying help for Ukraine. And it worked. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

Trump gives Ukraine OK to produce Patriot missiles as war with Russia drags on

Their meeting came as Ukraine faces an urgent ammunition shortfall.

abcnews.com

All the analytical power now available from modern developments in AI and big data are useless if you apply them without asking the right question. The NHs is still asking the wrong questions: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

The mythbuster: AI and analysis will not solve the NHS productivity problem

Technology can transform NHS productivity, but only if leaders first understand the problems they need data and AI to solve, says Steve Black

hsj.co.uk

OTD in 1978 Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov deliberately walked into a KGB umbrella that had been accidentally dipped in the poison ricin by Hunter Biden's laptop. Imagine us poisoning critics in this day and age...

I withdraw any suggestions that Trump is a terrible businessman. He has successfully persuaded his supporters to pay up to $2 for cheap brass $1 coins with his portrait on them.