War of Attrition 

At one time our CDS MasterClass (Billing for Dummies) was our most popular course and which I would be guaranteed to deliver a couple of times per month. Times have now obviously changed, and this course has been replaced by

LDN 

A quick post today as I am away to London – two days of training – the first on CDS billing and the second on, yes you’ve guessed it Peer Review. It will make a bit of a change to blow the dust off CBAM and rekindle all those fond memories of the very many […]

@$%& *&^% 

Think of all the swearwords you know, going right back throughout your life, in every language you know, including those you have made up yourself. Now times that by three and imagine it condensed it into one single, impassioned, not taking a breath 5 minute rant. (A rant I anticipate taking place in every office […]

My Definition of.. 

Mrs SP, who works in Local Government, is currently having her department assessed by another wing of the Central Government inspectorate. The auditors self description is: “Someone who is sent to shoot the wounded following the battle”. Any better ones will be published. For those thinking like me I have already tried to find an […]

Wrong (again) 

The VHCC Best Value Panel (BVP) is, to my mind, by far the most interesting of this weeks glut of consultations. Not only is there more detail to go at there is an intriguing underlying methodology to consider – potentially equally applicable to other planned and forthcoming contracting initiatives. Very briefly it works like this. […]

Data Integrity 

“Quality Profile reports are not currently being produced due to issues over the integrity of the data the (sic) contain”. Has anyone else encountered a similar response from the LSC or is it just one RO?

More Fighting 

I was unable to post yesterday as I was on my travels – again PR training in Yorkshire. (To an interesting town where the 5 PR results we are aware of do not reflect our judgement of real quality). Anyhow that aside the Gazette’s front page story is the same one we ran earlier in […]

Today’s Reading 

As I plough through this now near full lever arch file it strikes me that it is going to take at least two more read throughs before incorporating the key themes into the forthcoming “Contracting Update” course. If you want the chance to quiz me face-to-face you can book using this.

Police Station Reforms 

This batch of proposals for consultation can be sub divided into three: Police Station Boundaries Fixed Fees New Working Arrangements Here is a brief guide as to how access the information you will immediately want to see – if phone calls today are anything to go by. Boundaries There are a range of maps, broken […]

County Court System in “Chaos” 

The BBC are runining this story quite heavily today. Marilyn Stowe has just been on Five Live reinforcing the Judges views and also contributing that the crisis in Legal Aid is not helping. A cheery distraction from Carter don’t you think?