As you will recall from our earlier blog we are active supporters and disseminators of “Disability Confident,” the government scheme designed to help businesses become more confident about employing disabled people and to bridge the disability employment gap. Unfortunately, surveys like the one recently carried out by the charity Mencap (supporting people with learning disabilities) show…

The idea of old-fashioned common sense and getting on with the job has gone and in place of this we have robotic, over-legalised pen-pushery! The role of a doctor’s surgery practice manager seems to have become over complicated and subject to random testing – just like being back at school! My sympathy lies entirely with…

Surgery Inspections During an inspection, the question asked by the Care Quality Commission is “is it safe?” but when it comes to standards of accommodation, things have changed dramatically over the years. In the 1950s consulting rooms were cluttered but basically furnished with old-fashioned roll-top desks for the doctors. During the 1970s and 80s when…