The Department of Health and Social Care's written evidence to the Senior Salaries Pay Review Body (SSRB) for the 2022-23 pay round
Department of Health and Social Care -The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) has been asked to make observations on the current levels of pay for very senior managers (VSMs) in the NHS and executive and senior managers (ESMs) in DHSC ’s arm’s length bodies. The written evidence seeks to enable the SSRB to make independent observations on the levels of pay of VSMs and ESMs in order to form part of the wider SSRB report, which will include observations on the levels of pay for other senior public sector workers. The written ev idence includes information on NHS senior pay strategy along with recruitment and retention inf...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 24, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The Inevitability of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Trillion ‐Dollar Spending Programs
David BoazIn 2009, as the federal government was rolling out the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program and preparing to spend another $787 billion in President Obama ’s “stimulus” package — both with little serious examination by Congress, I wrote a blog post titled “How to Spend a Trillion Dollars without Waste and Fraud. ”The first line of my post was “You can’t.” And I noted that the federal government knew that, because both Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for TARP, and Gene Dodaro, the acting comptroller general, hadtold a House subcommittee— after the pas...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 10
Concluding the wisdom in the Book of Ten Sayings is a truth that many people know from experience, yet who never mention it in company. The Tenth Saying is to be repeated every morning and every night, as part of your prayers to God to search your soul and tear out all the Pride, for ,Pride is my self-made supreme enemyIf you, like many of us, want to stay away from sin and evil, then we need to eschew effectively the sin of Pride. In the old days, a list of sins was made, with Pride as the first sin listed, along with six others, These sins, named The Seven Deadly Sins, were considered especially bad because t...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 19, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?
Mike Magee MD
Science has a way of punishing humans for their arrogance.
In 1996, Dr. Michael Osterholm found himself rather lonely and isolated in medical research circles. This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging.
And yet, there was Osterholm, in Congressional testimony delivering this message: “I am here to bring you the sobering and unfortunate news that our ability to detect and monitor infectious disease threats to health in this country is in serious jeopardy…For 12 of the States or territories, there is no one w...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Healthcare system infectious diseases microbes Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Message by Dr Sumer Sethi to New MBBS Students
Welcoming new fledglings to the medical fraternity§ “You shouldn’t have come into this profession.”§ “Oh damn, I should’ve gone for engineering.”§ “I am studying for exams, while all my friends from other fields are partying… this is not fair.”How many times do we hear these words? A lot of demoralizing talks stem from not only the media and seniors but it is going to come from you too. Hence, at the very beginning, I want to sit you down and reassure you that:Yes, itis going to be a long and tedious journey but every bit of itwill feel worth it in the end.Medical profession cannot be va...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - February 5, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s money goals for 2022
It’s 2022, and many of us want this year to be better than last year. Instead of just hoping this happens, let’s make some realistic goals and put steps in place to achieve them. Here are some of my 2022 goals: 1. Continue to invest at least 10 percent of my salary in retirement accounts.Read more …A physician’s money goals for 2022 originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/altelisha-taylor" rel="tag" > Altelisha Taylor, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
A closer look at the costs of EMBO publishing
There has been a lot of discussions on social media about the price that some publishers are coming up for publishing a paper in their journals - the so called article processing charges (APC). With some journals asking for values that are on the order of 10k and many scientists finding these values to be outrageous. Given that journals don't work to produce the research articles and get academics to do the evaluation, how can these journals claim the costs of publishing a paper to be anywhere close to 10k ? While I agree that these are outrageous values, I don't really believe that the price is mostly profit. A good sourc...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - February 2, 2022 Category: Cytology Tags: publishing Source Type: blogs
Post-Doctoral Fellow to Study Neural Mechanisms of Language Recovery after Stroke - Johns Hopkins
Position available soon for a full-time research post-doctoral fellow, preferably in the field of speech-language pathology or cognitive neuroscience, to take primary responsibility for collection and analysis of data for a study of the neural mechanisms underlying language and cognitive recovery after stroke. This project would entail collaboration with a post-doctoral fellow in the area of motor recovery to longitudinally study patients either at Johns Hopkins or via an innovative Stroke Treatment And Recovery van (The STAR Car), equipped with devices for evaluating both motor and language/cognitive recovery v...
Source: Talking Brains - February 2, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Real Earnings Should Stop Falling If Energy Prices Stop Rising
Alan ReynoldsIn an interesting newPeterson Institute blog, Jason Furman and Willie Powell write, “Real wages and compensation increased dramatically in the first six months of the pandemic, as prices fell while wages and compensation continued to grow. Since then, however, price growth has been more rapid than wage and compensation growth, and so real wages and compensation have been falling. ”The facts are clear, yet they scream out for clarification. First, evennominalaverage hourly earnings “increased dramatically in the first six months of the pandemic (March‐August 2020)” while the economy collapsed under...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The Case for Increasing H ‑2B Guest Worker Visas Is Strong
David J. BierCongresshas authorized the Biden administration to increase the cap on the number of H-2B seasonal guest worker visas this summer. In the past, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has only used a portion of the H-2B visas that Congress authorized it to use. In 2021, DHSauthorized just 22,000 of the 64,716 additional H-2B cap spots Congress created, citing higher-than-normal unemployment rates early that year. In December, itannouncedit would authorize just 20,000 for the end of winter season. But this summer should be different: the economic case for using all of the H-2B visas is stronger than ever.Empl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
State of the lab 9 - an informal report on the 9 years of EMBL-EBI
This blog post is part of ayearly series (or close to yearly) on running a research lab in academia. 2021 was the last of 9 years as a group leader at EMBL-EBI, which is the standard time given to group leaders to establish and run their labs at EMBL. For this year's blog post I thought it was a good time to look back at the full 9 years and I am going to (briefly) cover the time at EMBL with some numbers including giving an approximate account of the finances. This is something that I do with the group at the start of every year but it still feels strange to make financial numbers public. The scientistsA lot has happ...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - January 19, 2022 Category: Cytology Tags: academia state of the lab Source Type: blogs
Arizona Republic Report Leaves Out Important Details and Context On Universal Licensing
Jeffrey A. SingerThe Arizona Republic recently published a report entitled, “Universal Licensing: Arizona opened the doors to less qualified workers ‐the public bears the risk. ” In its investigation of Arizona’suniversal licensing recognition law enacted in 2019 —a reform so successful and popular that it is being emulated by more than a third of other states—it mentioned irrelevant incidents and presented out‐of‐context data to malign this bold and enlightened reform.The article begins and ends with a heart‐wrenching story about a California‐licensed veterinarian who received a t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 3, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Reflections on Greenspan ’s “Irrational Exuberance” Speech after 25 Years
ConclusionMuch can be learned by reflecting on Greenspan ’s 1996 speech, especially given the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the current pandemic—both of which have increased the Fed’s power and weakened its independence. There is still no monetary rule to guide monetary policy, even as inflation has reared its head once more. What jumps out from Greenspan’s speech is how he posed a problem that the Fed never solved, and then made things worse.The New Year will test the Fed ’s resolve to taper QE, “normalize” interest rates, and slow inflation. With unprecedented fiscal deficits and debt, at least...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Makers and Takers
A few people have pointed out that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is begging the federal government for help after the tornadoes, but he voted against funding for disaster relief for other states. Sure, that ' s hypocritical, but the conservative gospel of self-reliance was hypocritical before that happened. Rand Paul and politicians from other so-called red states make a political career out of decrying moochers and dependency on federal handouts. So okay,here ' s a chart from the Rockefeller Institute that tells you exactly which states pay more to the federal government than they receive in federal funding; and which stat...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Program Officer job at NIDCD
The NIDCD will, in January, be welcoming applications for a professional track Health Scientist Administrator (HSA Program Officer) with expertise and research experience in language and language disorders. A doctoral degree in speech-language pathology, psychology/neuropsychology, linguistics or other fields with a focus in communication is preferred and individuals at early to mid career stages are strongly encouraged to apply. Responsibilities for this position will be to oversee an active and growing research portfolio related to language and language disorders. In addition, the individual in...
Source: Talking Brains - December 9, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
