Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

This is a story that I didn’t notice when it happened.  Beckman Coulter has bought Olympus Diagnostics.  Further coverage can be found here, here, here and from Beckman Coulter here.  Seems the story broke in Feburary.  Shows that my finger isn’t on the pulse!!!

I saw an interesting piece on the BBC news site.  It talked about a report from the Royal College of Surgeons that suggests that the 48 hour per week work limit for doctors is potentially damaging patient care.  The original report can be found here. Whilst the report does contain some valid points e.g. continuity [...]

The NHS IT project for computerised records has hit yet more problems.  It seems that any IT project  will have problems but this project has been hit more than most.  Only the air traffic control centre at Swanwick seems to be worse