| NHS London - delivering private health
NHS LONDON, the biggest of the strategic health authorities, is full of voices standing up for private profit in the health service. The chief executive is management consultant Ruth Carnall. She used to be non-executive director of Care UK, a private company presently involved in negotiations over taking over primary care services in London. These negotiations will be supervised by Ruth Carnall. Blair's health adviser Paul Corrigan is NHS London's new director of strategy and commissioning. He is a fan of foundation hospitals and privately run independent treatment centres that carry out routine hip, knee and cataract operations for profit within the NHS. That is yet another champion of private profit in the health service. So will be Anthony Sumara, NHS London's Turnaround director, the man who will tackle the debts of the capital's hospitals.
Tavis Smiley to address IU Bloomington graduates on May 5
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert today (April 5) announced that Tavis Smiley, a popular radio personality, political commentator, motivational speaker, author and Indiana University alumnus, will present the commencement address at IU Bloomington Saturday, May 5. With his late night television talk show, "Tavis Smiley," and his radio show "The Tavis Smiley Show," Smiley was the first American ever to simultaneously host signature talk shows on both PBS and National Public Radio. His television show continues now in its fourth season, and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on public radio is now distributed by Public Radio International (PRI). He also offers political commentary twice weekly on the nationally-syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show." Smiley was recommended by the IU Bloomington Commencement Speaker Committee which includes students, faculty and staff.
MCH administration goes hi-tech
Thiruvananthapuram: Patient management, medical records maintenance and day-to-day administration have become easier affairs at the Medical College Hospital here, as the hospital management system implemented by the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has become fully operational. The system had been on the run for the past one-and-a-half years and was formally inaugurated last month. First in State The Thiruvananthapuram MCH is the first one in the State to be fully computerised, and now that the benefits of an automated hospital management system has begun to sink in among the staff, there have been demands that such systems be replicated in other Government hospitals too. This is also the first time that CDAC has attempted the computerisation of a Government hospital as mammoth as the MCH here.
Kumon advances to final with dominating performance
Kumon Learning and The Electrical Shop will battle it out in the Thursday Night Squash League final next week, following semifinal victories this week. Kumon posted 22 points to Whitehorse Travels six, while Electrical prevailed with 17 points over Sterling Insurances 14. The travel crew and Sterling will now play for third place. Meanwhile, Northern Lights Optometry downed Well Read Books 14-13 in a contest for fifth place overall in the league. Winning their matches for Kumon were Darrin Sinclair, Ryan MacKinnon, Darren Holcombe and Jeanette Carney. Sinclair swept Whitehorse Travels Ashley LaBar in three games while MacKinnon, who was filling in for Judy Ratcliffe, needed five to beat Patti Flather. Holcombe prevailed over Lara Lewis in five games while Carney took care of Lesley Cabott in three straight.
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