Changing More Than Lightbulbs doesn’t usually advertise anything, but I couldn’t figure out how to show these slogan t shirts without linking to the Not An Alternative website that’s selling them.
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Dr Charlie Clutterbuck – Oxford REAL Farming Conference 2011 from Real Farming on Vimeo. Charlie will be speaking about land skills and land workers’ employment conditions at Growing Futures Field Day on Easter Saturday.
Here’s a link to Dr Charlie Clutterbuck’s Edible Curriculum for schools.
Thanks to children at St James After School Club, Incredible Edible Mytholm now has a lovely banner for Growing Futures Field Day on Easter Saturday!
This afternoon Gordon Rimer and Louise Heppleston had a good time putting it up at Mytholm Playing Field.
Please note Field Day change of venue – now at Hebden Bridge Town Hall!
After attending the 14th March Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meeting on behalf of Calderdale 38 Degrees NHS group, Dr Chris Day said,
“There were about 10 of us at the CCG meeting. We were treated better than last time and were initially allowed to interrupt with questions, which we did. This seemed to get the doctors talking more freely.
Finn Jensen asks this question at the end of his post on Germany’s energy transition.
The answer may lie in the way that successive UK governments have allowed themselves to be captured by fossil fuel and nuclear companies.
The NHS Commissioning Board website reports that West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Units are to merge.
Commissioning Support Units have been set up under the 2012 Health & Social Care Act, and are supposed to support the Clinical Commissioning Groups in their areas.
The West Yorkshire CSU business plan is being prepared by Pete Thomas, a Leeds KPMG employee on secondment from the global accountancy tax and financial advisory company. CSUs are widely expected to become privatised within the next 2-3 years.
It’s not clear how the CSUs’ merger will affect Clinical Commissioning Groups.
People who want to keep tabs on what the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is up to can attend its next meeting, which is open to the public.
The 14th March Calderdale CCG meeting starts at 2pm, in the NHS Calderdale premises, 4th Floor, F Mill, Dean Clough, Halifax, HX3 5AX (near the Travel Lodge hotel in Dean Clough).
There is every reason for the public to be vigilant about CCGs – a British Medical Journal study has just found that one in three GPs who are members of CCGs have financial links with a private healthcare provider; and that this represents a clear conflict of interest for CCGs when they come to commission health care services. For example, the Guardian report on the study says,
“six of the eight GPs on the board of Blackpool CCG have an interest in Fylde Coast Medical Services, the local out-of-hours provider, and five have an interest in Virgin Care, which is part of Richard Branson’s business empire.”
