‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route? Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?

The hollowing out of public services....often worse in coastal areas (where half the population disappears for 6 months of the year). Many ofthese areas also have high proportions of elderly people who rely on local buses, pharmacists, GPs, post offices etc www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When you spend a lot of time writing about ambulances, the use of "ambo" in here is momentarily confusing......

Two directors resign amid trust leadership dispute Two non-executive directors have resigned from a trust whose chief executive is suspended amid a dispute with the chair.

Two non-execs have now resigned at East Kent hospitals www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/t...

he's auditioning for the cover of a Pink Floyd album

I'm afraid so.

Obviously does not know how to wear a mask either.

Full story on hsj.co.uk

The chief executive of troubled East Kent Hospitals has been away from her post since November on "unplanned leave." Here's what was really going on.

I was there! Somewhere on the Weston library steps.

Was great fun. Bike bells and then Morris dancers' bells.....

Midlands and East become handover hotspots Five general hospital trusts - four of them in the East of England - saw a substantial increase in ambulance handover times this winter, against a backdrop of national improvement.

The startling thing here is not just the problems in the east but the tremenpous improvement in the South West which was, for years, the worst area for handover delays. This has improved ambulance response times and is likely to have saved lives. www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

met a gorgeous fluffy tabby in Worcester the other night - is he a known college cat?

I've not been an AI fan to date - diffcult to get prompts right, prone to errors, using inaccurate sources - but I have just used Claude to do a data analysis which would have taken me hours in excel and got usable tables back in minutes.

never happened in ER.....

Exclusive: Deaths linked to ‘overwhelmed’ department At least eight cancer patients were harmed - and in some cases potentially died - because of operational and admin failures in an "overwhelmed" hospital department, HSJ has learned.

This is very worrying - East Kent is a trust under unbelievable pressure and things are going wrong. www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

Oh how sad........<smiley face emoji>

Rising fuel prices are a signal that supply is constricted, compared with demand. So why are nearly all parties saying the answer is to subsidise prices so that damand remains high? (I know some people say they can't cut back use but most of us can, given the right prie signals).

Intrigued by NHS bodies which publish press releases on their websites but refuse to send them out to journalists. But infuriated by those that normally send them out on everything under the sun but have recently not sent out those about major board changes including resignations.

Seeing a lot of staff announcing their last day/s working for the NHS on LinkedIn today. Expertise and organisational memory being lost and large sums in redundancy being paid out. I wonder how long it will be until the NHS realises it needed them?

And works in Kent and Medway.....

don't get me going about the failure to act in the autumn as that became clear. Or the mess which was Christmas and New Year......

Love teh way the woman are all being squeezed out by the bros

not holding back, are they?

It does better on stillbirths but its neonatal death rate has been above the comparator average for 5 out of the last 8 years - in one or two years, very significantly above.

Times this morning seems to be talking of mergers rather than break ups! We are confused as to why East Kent has apparently leapfrogged into this select group of five - it was not in the broader group below it. It has, just got a red rating for neponatal deaths in 2024 using the MBRRACE methodology

what's happening to the animals? Not always easy to rehome them.....

under the heading "reducing pollution and congestion" as well!

Bring back the birch?

If you have to cycle behind a bus - as I end up doing regularly - you really notice the difference between one of these and older diesel ones.

Bold move which comes after decades of newspapers moving out of high street offices in favour of out-of-town hubs and working from home.