“We feel that showing compassion in this case wouldn’t open the floodgates of uncontrolled health immigration.” Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association council, says that Ama Sumani, a Ghanaian who cannot afford life-saving dialysis treatment at home, should not have been deported, in GP (Feb 1)
“I think the Government has given up on wanting to pay for the NHS, but it hasn’t got the balls to say so.” Dr Peter Holden, a negotiator on the BMA’s GP Committee, says that the Government is trying to bully NHS employees to walk out, so it can blame them for the demise of the NHS, in Pulse (Jan 30)
“Stop playing the charity card and act like the commercial type of organisation you need to be.” Belinda Prince, procurement director of Cancer Research UK, says third sector organisations are often regarded as a soft touch by suppliers, in Supply Management (Jan 31)
“As the new minister is about to find out, ambitious targets and reforms sound great from a platform but they are absolute tosh without the people to deliver them.” Huw Morris, the editor of Planning (Feb 1), extends a welcome to Caroline Flint, the new housing and planning minister
“I was slightly nervous to begin with as you never know what you are going to get with creative people” Steve Roberts, deputy assistant commissioner of the Met, on seeing London College of Fashion students’ designs for officers’ uniforms