Call to address ‘deeply dysfunctional’ healthcare systems
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- Call to address ‘deeply dysfunctional’ healthcare systems
- Ratings – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Parliament pays tribute to Powell
- Heavenly Creatures, Infernal Attachments
Call to address ‘deeply dysfunctional’ healthcare systems
Guardian Unlimited – Jun 16, 2005
Show me a system in any developed country and I will show you a system that could do it better”. Ms Shalala said the US had been working with the UK government for several years on common-ground issues afflicting both countries, such as infection control and medical errors. Other shared problems included the retention of home-grown nurses. “If you simply retained every nurse you trained you would have no nurse shortage,” she said. Ms Shalala listed a number of NHS reforms which the US was watching closely, including the new GP contract, and the national programme for IT, which will put patients’ health records online. But Ms Shalala also signalled that the NHS had some lessons to learn from the US on the commissioning of healthcare services for patients, claiming that her own company could make a “meaningful contribution” to the NHS. Ms Shalala said that the fragmented nature of the US healthcare system made country-to-country comparison at the national level problematic, but the US system provided a natural laboratory for experimentation and innovation.
Ratings – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Jun 16, 2005
Photo: Supplied A week after it axed its new Sunday night sketch comedyshow Let Loose Live after only two editions, Channel Sevenhas another big problem. Australia’s newest home-grown drama, Last Man Standing,crashed in the ratings on Monday night and, after only twoepisodes, faces an uncertain future. Riding on the back of the year’s top-rating series,Desperate Housewives, which averaged 598,000 viewers onMonday, Last Man Standing fell to 224,000 viewers. Last Man Standing is the latest in a string of failuresby Australian drama series. Last year, for example, the ABC’s Fireflies and Ten’sThe Cooks were ratings duds. Since McLeod’sDaughters premiered on Nine four years ago – it returns soonto the 7.
Parliament pays tribute to Powell
Jamaica Observer – Jun 16, 2005
77 seconds in the 100 metres in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday. The decision was taken after both the Leader of the House Dr Peter Phillips and the Leader of Opposition Business Derrick Smith, paid tribute to Powell and his university yesterday at Gordon House. Phillips said that Powell’s achievement should be, “a cause of great hope and celebration for all of us, particularly for the young people, as an example of the levels of excellence that can be achieved by home grown Jamaicans. Smith said that until recently, there was a view that for local athletes to excel at the international level they would need to take up overseas scholarships. “A lot of our athletes have now opted to train at home and Powell is one such. The Opposition congratulates him and his coach, Stephen Francis, who has been doing an excellent job with the athletes under his care,” Smith added. Speaker Michael Peart said that Parliament would write both Powell and UTECH congratulating them on the achievement…
Phillips said that Powell’s achievement should be, “a cause of great hope and celebration for all of us, particularly for the young people, as an example of the levels of excellence that can be achieved by home grown Jamaicans. Smith said that until recently, there was a view that for local athletes to excel at the international level they would need to take up overseas scholarships. “A lot of our athletes have now opted to train at home and Powell is one such. The Opposition congratulates him and his coach, Stephen Francis, who has been doing an excellent job with the athletes under his care,” Smith added. Speaker Michael Peart said that Parliament would write both Powell and UTECH congratulating them on the achievement. Talk Back No comments have been posted.
Heavenly Creatures, Infernal Attachments
OC Weekly – Jun 16, 2005
For all its amused commentary on the girlsâ disparate social backgrounds, My Summer of Love, loosely adapted by director Pawel Pawlikowski and writer Michael Wynne from a far more intricately plotted novel by Helen Cross, is in no meaningful way a treatise on social class, any more than Pawlikowskiâs equally beguiling 2000 feature, Last Resort, set in a holding camp for refugees, was about the plight of asylum seekers. A Polish filmmaker living in England, his sensibility owes little to the social realism of Mike Leigh or Ken Loach, still less to the black absurdism of Central European satire. Instead, this uncommonly original talent has home-grown a dreamily impressionistic aesthetic that mines the endless mysteries of the human soul through landscape and moody atmosphere. Pawlikowski is interested in the human psyche, and he wins multilayered performances from all his actors, but his approach to character is far from psychological. Eloquently shot by cinematographer Ryszard Lenczewski, the movie unfolds through the shimmering golden haze of a remembered rural idyll, albeit one choked at the heart by poison ivy. The girls open up to one anotherâMonaâs mother has died, and her brotherâs business with the Almighty has left her feeling ignored and alone, while Tamsin confides her grief over the loss of a beloved sister and the negligence of her self-absorbed parents. Press and Blunt play off one another beautifully.