Category: Sheffield
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Sheffield City Council Cuts Education Budget by 17%, School Places Chaos 2013 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Many of Sheffield's parents will have been busy during October making postal and online applications for 2013-14 secondary school places, and similarly soon to be followed by applications for primary and junior school places for which there are strict deadlines to adhere to. Unfortunately a large number of parents will find during 2013 that their child will not have been given a place at catchment area schools, instead be placed right across the city.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Labour Sheffield Council Black Bins Collections 50% Cut Encouraging Fly Tipping, Veolia Profits Jump 18.4% / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield residents are increasingly outraged at what they perceive to be the unilateral action by the Labour regime, Sheffield City Council to cut black bin collections by 50%, all without any prior discussion with residents at the ballot box, most of whom only find out of the changes AFTER they find that their black bins have gone uncollected. Leaflets informing residents of the changes were supposed to be have been sent out by the waste management company but have only been received by few.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Sheffield City Council Cuts Black Bins Collection by 50%, NHS GP's Delay Referrals Whilst Seeking Commissions / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
About 80% of council tax payers are in receipt of about 20% of the services, as Sheffield city council takes another step, in a long line of steps at stripping services offered to preserve public sector jobs to the greater detriment of public services as illustrated by the latest brain wave to cut the main black bins collection by 50% to save a mere £2.4 million and thus leaving Sheffield's residents with only one main collection every fortnight, whilst forcing recycling to a greater extent in the alternative blue bins collections for paper and bottles.
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Friday, July 06, 2012
UK, Sheffield Flood Warning 2012, a Repeat of 2007 Floods? / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Much of Britain is bracing itself for a deluge of a months rainfall in just 24 hours. Sheffielders are rightly worried to prepare themselves for a potential re-run of the 2007 floods of the century, as after an extraordinarily wet June the ground was already saturated coming into July, with rain fall continuing during the first week of the month into today's deluge.
The Met Office weather maps put Sheffield at greatest risk of potential flooding during Saturday Evening and into Sunday Morning, followed by a pause in the rainfall going into Monday when the rain is expected to resume.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Labour Party Appoints Shaun Wright as South Yorkshire's First Police and Crime Commissioner / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour party has spoken, South Yorkshire's first Police and Crime Commissioner will be the relatively unknown Rotherham Labour councillor Shaun Wright, who outmanoeuvred the publically more recognisable figure of former Chief Constable Med Hughes and other candidates by in some cases using tactics such as implying endorsements from unions, MP's and other party structures on leaflets etc, that he either did not have or had already been explicitly given to another candidates.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Labour Candidates / Politics / Sheffield
By: Submissions
The Labour party has short listed four candidates as the potential Labour candidate for South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner whom some 5,000 Labour party members will vote on in a June postal ballot as their representative in the public vote on November 15th, 2012.
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
One Medical Sheffield Rockingham Street NHS GP Centre Real Patient Experience Review / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
One Medicare (owned by One Medical) with much fanfare and glossy leaflet drops opened Sheffield's GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery in April 2009 that offered 7 days per week access from 8am to 8pm, situated near the centre of Sheffield on the corner of Rockingham Street and Broad Lane. The centre publicised that it was open to any person to walk in off the street and see a GP or nurse without a prior appointment (allow upto 3hours waiting time) and those choosing to register with the surgery would receive full NHS services, thus offering an alternative to patients stuck in the catchment areas of Sheffield's bottom ranking GP Surgeries.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Will New Darnall Community GP Health Centre Building Make Any Real Difference? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Darnall Community Health consistently ranks as Sheffield's bottom ranking GP Surgery as measured by the Department of Health funded UK GP Patient survey in terms of overall satisfaction at the quality of healthcare received. The last analysed survey for the period to March 2011 featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 1.96 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 68,242 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 26,193 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Will Labour Choose the Best Man for the Job? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The coalition government's reform of England and Wale's Police forces will soon kick into gear in the run up to the November 15th elections for Police and Crime Commissioners to replace Police Authorities, who will be tasked with holding police forces to account including the power to hire and fire chief constables as well as set force priorities in response to the populations needs.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Dr Choudhry Mohamed Walayat MBE Passes Away / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Nadeem Walayat writes: My Father, Dr Choudhry Mohammed Walayat passed away on Sunday 13th November 2011 at 9.42pm at the age of 75.
My father had been hospitalised since suffering a Major stroke in May 2011, following several months of stability with plans for home care to commence during Late October, my father took a turn for the worse on October 30th, following which he had remained critically ill until his death, and I was blessed to be at his bedside at the time of passing.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
One Medicare NHS GP Surgery Patient Experience at Broad Lane, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
One Medicare (owned by One Medical) with much fanfare and glossy leaflet drops opened Sheffield's GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery in April 2009 that offered 7 days per week access from 8am to 8pm, situated near the centre of Sheffield, located on the corner of Rockingham Street and Broad Lane. The centre allows any person to walk in off the street and see a GP or nurse without a prior appointment (allow approx 2hr waiting time) and those choosing to register with the surgery receiving full NHS services, thus offering the potential for those stuck in Sheffield's worst ranking GP Surgeries to register with a better resourced GP surgery.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
UK GP Patient Survey Results 2011 - NHS Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest results for the Department of Health Funded UK GP Survey have been recently released that covers the year to March 2011. The survey featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 1.96 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 68,242 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 26,193 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Darnall Community Health, Sheffield UK NHS GP Patient Survey Results Update / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The latest results for the Department of Health Funded UK GP Survey have been recently released that cover the 4 quarters for September 2010. The survey features more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.06 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 67,842 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 91 GP surgeries of which 26,865 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
New Darnall Medical Health Centre Built, Delayed or Scrapped ? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey 2009-10 featured more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires being sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.17 million were returned. For the city of Sheffield a total of 65,339 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 27,380 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Sheffield NHS GP Post Code Lottery Map, The Best and Worst Ranked Surgeries / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain's post code lottery in health services manifests itself in the failure of GP's and PCT's to equally prescribe life saving and prolonging medicines and treatments regardless of where patients live. The greatest disparity in health care provision observed is that of between affluent and deprived areas of the country where life expectancy can differ by as much as 14 years within just a couple of miles distance as a consequence of real GP performance against NHS propaganda of uniform delivery that this article seeks to put the spot light on for the city of Sheffield.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Darnall Community Health Sheffield - UK GP Patient Survey Results 2010 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey 2009-10 recently released results of more than 5.5 million detailed questionnaires sent out to NHS GP patients across England of which 2.17 million were returned.
For the city of Sheffield a total of 65,339 questionnaires were sent out to the patients of Sheffield's 92 GP surgeries of which 27,380 were returned from which detailed results were compiled as listed in the table at the end of this article for the overall level of satisfaction at the quality of health care received for all of Sheffield's GP surgeries.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sheffield NHS Spending Cuts, PCT Scrapped, Which GP's Next? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The new Coalition Government was apparently so impressed by the performance of the NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCT's) that as part of its cost cutting austerity plan it intends to scrap ALL PCT's in favour of GP Consortia's directly managing patient treatment commissioning (the process could take 2-3 years to implement). This means Sheffield NHS PCT who's achievements include employing 400 bureaucrats in a new multi-million pound headquarters is destined to disappear from Sheffield's health landscape.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Sheffield NHS GP Walk In Centre / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The last Labour governments solution towards badly performing GP surgeries was to introduce Super Surgeries or Poly Clinics. Sheffield saw its own GP Polyclinic or Super Surgery open during mid 2009 that aimed to fill the gap in the wide disparity in quality of GP health care throughout the city by operating a 7 days a week service from 8am to 8pm.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sheffield NHS UK GP Patient Survey Results 2009-10 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey presents an excellent record of the actual quality of patient experience of using NHS GP services across England. The 2009-10 Q4 survey results have now been released that bring the total detailed questionnaires being sent out to patients during the year to more than 5.5 million across England of which 2.17 million have been returned.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Liberal Democrats Punish Sheffield for Voting Labour By Scrapping ForgeMasters Loan / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Con-Dem government eager to implement a hit list of spending cuts that primarily target Labour area's of the country have started the ball rolling with £2 billion of cuts in planned projects which range from a new £450 million front line NHS hospital to an £80 million loan to Sheffield ForgeMasters that would have been the genesis for the development of a nuclear power industry in the cities steel sector.
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