“I’m not going to be stupid about it. If after a period of time I felt that I’m not able to give either job the best I would relook at it.” Sir Simon Milton, the leader of Westminster City Council and the Local Government Association’s new chairman, is going to multitask, in Local Government Chronicle (July 5)
“If we give ministers solutions, they will bite our hands off.” Sir Simon calls upon councils to lead, not follow, in The MJ (July 5)
“The Department of Health’s workforce planning is so lamentable that without knowing how the figure was reached it’s hard to know what it means and I don’t think you can trust it one inch.” Josie Irwin, head of employment relations at the Royal College of Nursing, on the estimated oversupply of 9,700 nurses, in Nursing Times (July 3)
“One would conclude that Brown’s judgment is [that] there is not too much wrong with the NHS, it is just how you communicate the achievements better.” Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, says there won’t be any radical change from Health Secretary Alan Johnson, in Health Service Journal (July 5)
“Once the waters have receded, turn clearing up into a project.” Jolly advice on how to deal with a flooded youth centre, in Young People Now (July 4)
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“The danger is that together, the eager social engineer and the bureaucrat build a regeneration zoo.” Too many worthwhile projects end up as white elephants, says Robert Ashton, in New Start (July 6)