“Torn up.”
What Paul Burstow, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, thinks should happen to the revised Mental Health Bill, in Public Health News (Feb 7)
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“I feel sympathy for young people who feel they need to mark their sense of identity by tagging a wall. They want their own space.”
John Sorrell, chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, paints a picture of youth for delegates at a sustainable communities conference, in Young People Now (Feb 9)
“No matter how stringent the procedures that hospitals put in place to combat MRSA, they will be ineffective so long as they are forced to continue using open wards.”
Sam Poddar, chairman of the care home operators Lambhill Court Limited, explains why private rooms prevent MRSA, in Nursing Times (Feb 8)
“We wearily allow ourselves to be herded into institutions by people who have no idea of our misery.”
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Sean, a 21-year-old with a disability, in Community Care (Feb 10)
“Some (pilot schemes) are there because we are not factoring up to factors that we know the answer to, not getting on with things.”
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Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, admits that pilot schemes sometimes take the place of action, in New Start (Feb 11)
“I’ve learnt to be flexible to new challenges — such as goats mating in the classroom.”
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Ann-Marie Hersh describes her experience teaching to village elders in Sudan, in Housing Today (Feb 11)