“I’m no advocate of targets, but you do wonder if chief constables would so blatantly neglect road policing if it were something they were judged upon.”
Metin Enver, the editor of Police (Nov), wants road policing moved up the policing agenda
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“I am puzzled that there is so much opposition to clinicians having budgets.”
Dr Rhidian Morris, retired GP, on the suggestion that all healthcare commissioning should be carried out by local councils, in GP (Nov 24)
“Many MPs’ disdain comes from believing (that) local government is still as bad as when they themselves were councillors.”
Richard Vize, the editor of Local Government Chronicle (Nov 23), blames party squabbling and “the personal enmities of political egos”
“Academics will not create content. They will identify high-quality trusted sources that their students will use.”
Elizabeth Rogerson, the head of the Distance Learning Centre, and Colin Smythe, of Dundee University, on the future of academia, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (Nov 24)
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“(There has been) nothing like it since the poll tax.”
Geoff Martin, head of campaigns at the pressure group Health Emergency, on the protests against changes to hospital services, in Health Service Journal (Nov 23)
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“You are talking to an old git. I’m no computer whizz. We need face-to-face training,
no e-learning rubbish.”
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PC Bill Channing, of Hampshire Constabulary, on training to use the force’s new records management system, in Police (Nov)