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Mixed record card for flagship mental health scheme

nigel.hawkes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:25:22 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

To the new health secretary, Andrew Lansley, target is a dirty word. He prefers outcome measures – actual results that show treatments are working.

Police face a crunch on numbers

nigel.hawkes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:02:02 +0000

Robert Whiston and Nigel Hawkes

No sooner are they in power than the Tories give us all a fright over law and order.

RPI vs CPI: seconds out, round two

nigel.hawkes — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:50:44 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not getting away unchallenged with his decision to link benefits and pensions to a different inflation measure, mentioned

Love in a cold climate?

nigel.hawkes — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:20:06 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

There’s going to be a baby boom next month, according to many newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph.

Hysteria on STIs is overdone

nigel.hawkes — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:07:38 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

Sex sells papers, so today’s made hay with new figures for sexually-transmitted diseases. “Drunk ladettes fuel a boom in STIs” was the Daily Express headline.

Crying rape falsely: rare or common?

nigel.hawkes — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:18:29 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is claiming that a dirty tricks campaign lay behind the charges of rape and sexual assault laid against him by two Swedish women last week.

Smoking legislation works, claims new study

nigel.hawkes — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:36:07 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

A study funded by the Department of Health shows that raising the age at which teenagers can buy cigarettes from 16 to 18 had a dramatic effect on smoking prevalence in the under-18s.

Preventing the deaths of prisoners immediately after release

nigel.hawkes — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:12:14 +0000

Sheila Bird

The European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a

Modest savings from targeting the "workshy"

nigel.hawkes — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:10:25 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

Workshy scroungers have cost the taxpayer £28 billion over the past decade, the Daily Express splashed on Monday.

Scotland sticks to five days’ pre-release access

nigel.hawkes — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:29:33 +0000

Nigel Hawkes

The Scottish Government has flatly rejected any change in pre-release access to statistics, describing the arguments of the UK Statistics Authority in favour of such a change as specious.