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Advertise on Cineuropa Logos and Banners PRODUCTION / FUNDING France by Fabien Lemercier 17/07/2024 - The CNC will also be backing Héléna Klotz’s third feature and the second feature films by Emmanuel Marre and Camille Ponsin The story kicks off in Paris in a working-class neighbourhood in the city’s 19th arrondissement Shai and Djeneba are 19 years old and have always been friends they find themselves working as leaders at a summer camp far from the tower blocks in whose shadow they were raised where they are officially responsible for a tribe of children aged between 6 and 10 they are forced to make certain choices in order to grow up and ultimately reinvent their friendship Filming will unfold between 1 August and 28 September in Drôme and Paris Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox 02/05/2025Production / Funding – Italy Shooting begins on Walter Fasano’s Nino, a portrait of scoring maestro Nino Rota 02/05/2025Production / Funding – Belgium Wallimage is backing Michaël R Roskam's Le Faux Soir 30/04/2025Production / Funding – Italy The final clapperboard slams on Il falsario, starring Pietro Castellitto 30/04/2025Production / Funding – UK/France/Germany Sally Potter’s Alma to star Pamela Anderson and Dakota Fanning 29/04/2025Production / Funding – Spain Claudia Pinto finishes filming Morir no siempre sale bien 29/04/2025Production / Funding – Latvia The National Film Centre of Latvia unveils the recipients of its latest round of funding Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema Cannes 2025 Marché du Film AFCI runs its second annual Global Film Commission Network Summit at Marché du Film Festivals / Awards Czech Republic Czech Republic’s Anifilm goes sci-fi Distribution / Releases / Exhibitors Europe European Arthouse Cinema Day set to return on 23 November Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Indie Sales presents a three-star line-up at Cannes HOFF 2025 The Shadow and U Are the Universe win at Estonia’s Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Crossing Europe 2025 Awards The New Year That Never Came and The Flats crowned at Crossing Europe Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Be For Films to sell Love Me Tender in Cannes Cannes 2025/Sponsored Latvia set to shine bright at Cannes, led by Sergei Loznitsa’s competition entry Two Prosecutors Las Palmas 2025 MECAS/Awards Manuel Muñoz Rivas and Joana Carro win awards at the eighth MECAS Cannes 2025 Marché du Film Playtime to present some high-impact and entrancing trump cards at Cannes Production / Funding Italy goEast 2025 Review: My Magical World Market TrendsFOCUSA busy spring festival season awaits the European film industry. 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what is the greatest love of your life I was raised partly by my grandmother who owned a bakery So I arrived in the universe of cooking through baking but I very quickly fell in love with the profession How would you describe your cuisine and your culinary approach a traditional French dish that’s making its comeback to the French culinary scene a traditional French dish that has been on our brasserie’s menu for years This dish also highlights the work of the waitstaff since the sole is cut in the dining room What are some of your favorite ingredients Fish because it consists of timed cooking that requires precision What does olive oil represent in your cooking philosophy Olive oil often arrives at the end of the cooking process when it’s the moment to finalize the dish and add the final touch It’s also a healthy ingredient (limits bad cholesterol) that we like to add to our dishes It’s important to carefully choose your olive oil It must not be spicy; it must be young (olives picked at the beginning of the harvest in early November) to limit acidity and obtain a fairly flavored and fruity oil Pierre Gagnaire with whom I collaborate daily to conceive the brasserie’s menus What is it that you most dislike about the culinary industry What do you consider your greatest achievement Being the Executive Chef of Le Fouquet’s Paris and participating in the history of this famous Parisian house Disappointing clients and not meeting their expectations Lise Akoka completed a university course in Psychology and a professional training in acting in casting and coaching children for the cinema a way of bringing together her two interests Romane and Lise met during the casting of a feature film they co-directed the short film Chasse Royale awarded in several festivals and which won the Illy Prize at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2016 The film was nominated a year later at the César for Best Short film they co-directed the documentary Allez garçon is broadcast on Arte and then selected at the Sundance Festival shot in Boulogne-sur-Mer and selected at Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website to analyze traffic and to personalize content and advertisements You can obtain more information about the cookies we use or deactivate them NOUCINEMART SLU uses cookies to personalize content and advertisements provide social media functions and analyze our web traffic We also share information about how our site is used with our social media who may combine it with other information that you have provided to them or that they have collected from use of their services Make a website useful by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access in secure areas of the website You help website owners understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and information anonymously Please enable Essential or necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences May 6-12 is National Nursing Week, and in recognition of the tremendous impact nurses have on individuals a Clinical Lead Nurse Practitioner who lives in Prince George There are so many different types of nursing so if there's something you don’t like about your job you can change where you work and who you work with You can always find something that fills your cup I'm not the same person I was when I went into nursing; I've grown personally and professionally more than I thought possible Nursing gives me personal satisfaction – I do this work because I love it Nursing has many avenues; I'm currently working in a leadership position and also in a specialized clinical practice which is an opportunity to give back to students I try to focus on what makes us similar – how we can all provide something that gives back to our patients and how we can provide the best care possible I moved from Vancouver Island to Prince George seven years ago and found the North to be very friendly much more so than the Lower 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practitioner I completed the Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Northern BC in Prince George I wish people knew what a nurse practitioner is: an advanced practice nurse with skills in assessment and we are proud of our nursing background Our nursing scope of practice informs our work every day Nurse practitioners give a different voice to nursing and I wish that more people had access to nurse practitioner services As a clinical lead nurse practitioner, I support Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) nurse prescribers Nurses are truly experts in the care that they provide Angela Kehler is the Communications Advisor for Planning and Quality at Northern Health She also provides communication support to the Inclusion © 2025 Northern Health Mixed bag for Ineos Grenadiers riders in mountain bike season debuts This weekend marked Ferrand-Prévot's first appearance in a mountain bike race for the Ineos Grenadiers after she signed on as the first female rider for the squad over the offseason She did not disappoint in her inaugural cross-country race in Ineos kit "It’s good to be back," was all Ferrand-Prévot needed to say on her Instagram post about the race The four-time MTB world champion flew solo to cross the line more than two minutes ahead of runner-up Léna Gerault (Berria Vittoria Factory Team) Annie Last (Lapierre Mavic Unity) rounded out the podium on the day Tom Pidcock starts 2023 MTB campaign with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot this week Ineos Grenadiers announce Pauline Ferrand-Prévot signing Pidcock measures effort against Evenepoel to claim first Monument podium at Liège After Ferrand-Prévot's strong showing on the women's side, Pidcock's first cross-country race of the year didn't go as well. The Olympic champion, who rode onto the podium in the short track race in Guéret on the heels of his podium performance at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, did not finish. According to Ineos Grenadiers, Pidcock was "forced to abandon after a mechanical issue." New Zealand's Sam Gaze (Alpecin-Deceuninck), with a short track win already in the bag, went on to win the cross-country race as well. The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! Pidcock and Ferrand-Prévot will both be back to racing next weekend in Switzerland at the OKK Bike Revoltion, with an eye towards continuing to build towards the first MTB World Cup race of the year at Nové Město in the Czech Republic. Dane has been a sports writer and editor for many years, and makes a return to Cyclingnews as a contributor in 2022. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia. Tribute Archive Niger sits at the crossroads of a huge area where state actors have limited control. The region is home to a toxic blend of insurgencies, ethnic militias, drug traffickers, smugglers and violent extremist groups. The upper Sahel is nevertheless far from being ungoverned There are complex layers of political economic and geopolitical forces at play: socio-ethnic kinship; migration; and informal trade in particular create powerful cross-border links These links facilitate exchanges but also allow illicit networks and armed groups to thrive across borders they tie Niger to overlapping crises in Mali Niger is also situated at the heart of the African migration routes towards Libya and on to Europe the northern city of Agadez remains the principal transit hub for West African migrants Long overlooked by national governments and regional organisations the wider fight against violent extremism across the Sahel as well as the migrant crisis have put Niger back on the map as an important strategic actor; prolonged instability in that country would therefore entail significant security threats for the region Niger joined the regional coalition against Boko Haram two years ago The insurgency had already been fuelling local tensions over resources but the militarisation of the Diffa region in the southeast of the country as well as the multiplication of self-defence militias have further hindered the local economy and created an increasingly volatile situation Across the Sahel and particularly in Niger droughts and forced displacements coupled with rapid population growth have generated a growing number of people competing for diminishing fertile land and water traditional pastoralists looking for grazing areas collide with sedentary farmers – this creates inter-communal tensions In eastern Niger, Peuls and Mohamid herders accuse local populations of participating in cattle raids and of supporting Boko Haram The resulting escalation in tensions has led to the formation of ethnic-based self-defence militias that have been involved in deadly clashes between local communities Addressing the local dimensions of violence between communities is crucial if the struggle against Boko Haram is to be successful. Local conflict will only make the terror group stronger by providing it with a position as the sole functioning local authority will lead to recruitment and financing opportunities for the insurgents The local population also bears the burden of highly restrictive measures that have been put in place since the beginning of the state emergency in the Diffa region In an attempt to disrupt Boko Haram finances local authorities have forbidden trade in vegetables and fish two economic activities believed to be frequently taxed by the insurgents Ongoing operation and militarisation on banks of Lake Chad have also been accompanied with the forced resettlement of tens of thousands people by security forces Displaced populations were forced to leave their goods behind these measures have contributed to increasing food insecurity and have left thousands deprived of economic activity In a country where 80% of the population depends on subsistence farming the economic burden of the military operation is likely to fuel grievances against authorities and push young people into the ranks of Boko Haram On the other side of the country, the worsening security situation in Mali and similar local conflict dynamics are also posing threats to stability in Niger disputes between herders over grazing land have been ongoing since the 1970s They have transformed into frequent bouts of inter-communal violence after the inflow of small arms during the Tuareg rebellion of the 1990s After the start of the Malian civil war, local jihadi groups and Tuareg separatist movements have absorbed local militias deadly clashes occur on both sides of the border Furthermore, after a series of attacks against security forces by Malian-based jihadi groups, a state of emergency has been declared in the region for a period of three months This was also accompanied by restrictive measures on the local population which adds to the burden of already-impoverished areas An estimated 80,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance in the region and security measures are blocking development initiatives Niger remains one of the last stable countries in an increasingly volatile region Fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in the east and the threat of jihadi groups at the Malian border must be accompanied with sensible policy aimed at tackling the root cause of extremism in the long run First, social and economic pressures must be addressed. Niger is ranked at the bottom of the human development index and a lack of education and infrastructure diminishing agricultural resources and the second highest rate of population growth in Africa Niger must reaffirm its role as a functioning governance entity beyond its sole military presence and its government must attempt to resolve local disputes the escalation of local tensions over access to resources has created a security dilemma pushing threatened communities to join violent groups like Boko Haram and Al-Qa’ida in the Maghreb for protection Better water and land management strategies, increased economic opportunities and a more sensible approach to counterinsurgency could do much to prevent the alienation of already-vulnerable populations Niger could avoid being destabilised and remain a key strategic partner in the fight against violent extremism in the greater Sahel Tristan Guéret worked on a research placement at RUSI governance and violent extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa security and international affairs to help build a safer UK and a more secure Copyright 2025 | The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies | RUSI is registered as a charity in England and Wales - Charity number: 210639 | VAT number: GB752275038 Our websites may use cookies to personalize and enhance your experience. 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For more information, please see our University Websites Privacy Notice Advanced lung cancer patient Michel Gueret had a life expectancy of less than a year at the time of diagnosis After participating in an immunotherapy clinical trial at UConn Health A leading-edge immunotherapy clinical trial at UConn Health’s Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center has packed a one-two punch successfully controlling a patient’s advanced lung cancer using the combined power of two immunotherapy drugs when he received the devastating news that he had advanced lung cancer while hospitalized for a collapsed lung at UConn John Dempsey Hospital “I remember Michel in his hospital bed following discovery of his large lung cancer tumor,” recalls his oncologist I was afraid that his lifespan would be severely reduced as his large tumor consumed a large portion of his lung which impaired his ability to walk and made surgery to remove it impossible.” Gueret underwent several aggressive rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to control his cancer’s growth Doctors warned him that his time might be limited “My severe lung cancer probably would have given me a life expectancy of less than a year,” says Gueret “But it is now four and a half years later!” Gueret’s survival is due to his participation in a national 20-site clinical trial called ECHO-202 UConn Health is the only site in Connecticut testing the safety and combined power of the two immunotherapies Epacadostat (INCB024360) which is FDA-approved for advanced melanoma These drugs are believed to work together to jumpstart the immune system They are thought to allow cancer cells that are hidden from the immune system to become more easily recognized and subsequently destroyed by the patient’s immune system the clinical trial’s principal investigator at UConn Health Gueret’s tumors started to shrink just nine weeks after he began the immunotherapies with each follow-up imaging scan showing a better and better response a little over a year after the start of his treatment it is amazing how he is doing,” says Wasser His tumor seems to have regressed significantly over time.” Gueret is overjoyed with his body’s response “The clinical trial has worked extremely well for me and I am doing great Jeffrey Wasser and the oncology team at UConn Health,” he says “The Cancer Center at UConn Health has put me in a position four years after a deadly diagnosis to have no more signs or symptoms of my advanced lung cancer Wasser says it feels “pretty good” to have such a positive clinical trial patient result “This is the part of medicine I enjoy,” he adds “It truly restores hope to cancer patients Wasser notes that special thanks are due to patients who participate in such early phase clinical trials Phase 1 trials are done to find a safe dose of a new medication and there is often little opportunity for the patients to benefit clinically Exceptions such as Gueret’s case are a pleasant surprise when they do occur Wasser also credits the success of the trial to the team effort and dedication of Cancer Center staff and the regulatory team of the Clinical Trials Office Gueret is sharing his success story to help give hope to other advanced cancer patients “Never underestimate what is possible,” says Gueret we can do something about our advanced cancer diagnoses – whether immunotherapy offers the prospect of long-term management of the disease or even the possibility of complete remission instead of just trying to buy one or two more years “My survival story shows the true weight of what the cancer doctors are doing here at UConn Health,” he adds Tumor cancer cells spread throughout a person’s body because the immune system’s key defenders One mechanism by which the tumor cells exhaust the immune system is by expressing a protein called PD-L1 and PD-L2 (program death ligand 1 and 2) This leads to the expression of PD-1 receptors on the surface of once healthy T-cells luring them to bind to cancer cells and destroying their efficiency to fight cancer’s spread Keytruda is the first FDA-approved PD-1 inhibitor immunotherapy drug of its kind that is allowing shrinkage of tumors by blocking PD-1 receptors or their ligands to extend the life of T-cells to effectively destroy the tumors Epacadostat is an experimental drug that can help stop a protein in the body known as IDO1 which often plays a role in blocking the immune system’s ability to reject a foreign invader such as cancer cells “Working together by blocking both IDO1 and PD-1 the drugs may be helping the body’s own immune system to better fight cancer and shrink the tumors in some patients,” Wasser says The ECHO-202 clinical trial at UConn Health is currently testing the combination of medications in advanced or metastatic lung cancer as well as other advanced solid-tumor cancers including melanoma a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma known as diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) Keytruda alone is already credited for boosting the immune system and the disappearance of advanced melanoma in former President Jimmy Carter along with up to 35 percent of advanced melanoma patients treated with the drug at UConn Health Phase 1 of this clinical trial has been completed and patients are currently being considered for the phase 2 portion of the study patients with different tumor types are assigned standardized doses of the drugs in order to test their efficacy in combination along with Wasser’s research investigations the drug makers of Keytruda and Epacadostat More information about this national clinical trial can be found here. 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It is also an affectionate visual celebration of childhood and youth. Careful camera work forces the audience to see the beauty in the children’s faces Akoka and Gueret speak fondly of the young actors and speak of their efforts to “place spectators in our shoes,” making the audience see what was special about the children is why they began the film with casting interviews in which the children speak directly to the camera “All have fascinating faces and gazes,” the directors commented “and it was our job to enhance this….” Making the audience intimately familiar with the young cast members humanises them and makes them relatable which carries the viewer through the children’s shabby life and sometimes objectionable attitudes or behaviour The fully formed characters and the empathetic view of their lives sustain interest throughout the film but the plot is also entertaining on its own The story comes together in a perfect final scene and their sometimes disguised innocence in a poignant but joyful shared moment that brings the entire story together CANNES 2022 Un Certain Regard 22/05/2022 - CANNES 2022: A very successful first feature for Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret who bring inner-city kids through the looking glass Maylis (Mélina Vanderplancke) and Jessy (Loïc Pech) the four protagonists selected by the filmmaker (Johan Heldenbergh) a very new experience begins which will accelerate their evolutions by tinkering with their fragility under the intrigued even jealous or reproachful gaze of the neighbourhood's inhabitants We dive straight into the set on the 7th day of shooting in an ultra popular atmosphere perfectly summarised by Rémy's rap Rappelle-toi après l'école (Remember after school) chanted twice in The Worst Ones ("The neighbourhood in the days of the street you didn't have the codes.. And I prefer a childhood on the street than in a palace Because it makes you understand adult things when you're not 18.. Because we share this same bitch of a life.. the local culture is one of extreme harshness in a working class that carries all the misfortunes entangled in economic misery has been living with his sister for six months after a string of shelters due to a mother who was overwhelmed by life beautiful Lily has been branded a whore since her bathroom misadventures with school boys while drifting away following the death of her little brother from cancer Jessy the show-off has done three months in prison for driving without a licence and a hit-and-run after hitting a passer-by and the young and opaque Maylis doesn't give a damn about anything Our four local standard-bearers will therefore learn a lot about themselves (but also their texts which is no easy task) and about a possible (but still very distant) elsewhere during a shoot led by a director who flirts with the lines very human but manipulative if necessary when it comes to putting scenes in the can Carried by very engaging young performers (in particular the very touching Ryan and the dreamer Lily) The Worst Ones holds up a mirror of truth that is confoundingly natural and double-minded like the rector of the National Education Department believe that "it's not because these children exist that they should be shown," or the educators who find that all this goes against their efforts to improve the image of the neighbourhood and the others who retort that "these worst ones" are in fact pearls chosen from among hundreds of kids Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret's first feature film provides material for a particularly topical sociological discussion the film has a real heart that beats wildly and a power that releases emotions that are both formidably lively and cinematographically very accomplished in their form interweaving two worlds that wrongly misunderstand each other and that benefit from discovering each other Produced by Les Films Velvet and co-produced by France 3 Cinéma, The Worst Ones is sold internationally by Pyramide "We mostly wanted to talk about the meeting of these two very different worlds" CANNES 2022: The filmmaking duo explain their intentions for their first feature film which homes in on children, and their work with young people   25/05/2022 The CNC will also be backing Héléna Klotz’s third feature, and the second feature films by Emmanuel Marre and Camille Ponsin   17/07/2024 | Production | Funding | France Sami Bouajila, Mallory Wanecque, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Donzelli, Andréa Bescond and Stefan Crepon feature in the cast of this production by 24 25 Films and Oriflamme, sold by Ginger & Fred   28/05/2024 | Production | Funding | France The French filmmaker wins the Diamond Valois for Best Film with Vincent Lacoste named Best Actor; Augure, Rosalie and La fiancée du poète are also among the winners   28/08/2023 | Angoulême 2023 | Awards The director of Sink of Swim is back with an XXL cast led by François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos in a movie produced by Trésor Films and Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, and sold by StudioCanal   28/07/2023 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium 21 feature films accompanied by numerous directors are set to screen between 2 and 12 March during the 28th edition of the event, organised by Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center   02/03/2023 | Festivals | Awards | USA/France Le long de Louis Garrel devance La Nuit du 12, En corps, Pacifiction et Les Amandiers. Ces cinq titres brigueront le César du meilleur film   25/01/2023 | César 2023 The results are in for the poll of Cineuropa’s journalists. Which are the best European works of the year?   21/12/2022 | Cineuropa 15/12/2022 | France 07/12/2022 | Production | Funding | France/Morocco 02/05/2025goEast 2025 30/04/2025Films / Reviews – Italy Review: San Damiano 30/04/2025Hot Docs 2025 Review: King Matt the First 29/04/2025Films / Reviews – Italy Review: Storia di una notte 29/04/2025Films / Reviews – Peru/Spain Review: Kayara. La guerrera del Imperio Inca 29/04/2025Hot Docs 2025 Review: Supernatural Junior Mason Graphite (TSXV: LLG) has provided an update on testing of lithium-ion prototype battery cells made with graphite sourced from its Lac Guéret deposit The cells, which contain coated spherical purified graphite made at pilot-scale facilities located in Quebec City have completed 800 charge/discharge cycles while retaining 82% of their initial capacity “While the lithium-ion battery applications are highly diversified with each manufacturer having its own requirements in terms of battery cycle life and associated capacity retention reaching 800 cycles with such retention is a decisive milestone significantly de-risking our ultimate objective of reaching 1,000 cycles with 80% retention,” said Jean L’Heureux “This would rank the Lac Guéret graphite among one of the best performing anode materials currently available and pave the way for its commercialization in a variety of applications The batteries are tested at a charge rate of C/3 meaning 3 hours to charge and 3 hours to discharge with about four full cycles completed per day Tests are still ongoing to evaluate the full life expectancy of the cells Although Mason Graphite released an updated feasibility for Lac Guéret in late 2018 development of the high-grade project has been on hold due to depressed graphite prices the company announced it would prioritize creating value-added products (coated spherical graphite) over mine and concentrator development the company announced it would be “re-accelerating” mine development Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has forecast a 49% growth rate in demand for flake graphite from the battery sector in 2021 as part of the world's “green” recovery from Covid-19 The 2018 feasibility study update projected Lac Guéret's preproduction capex at $258.2 million contains proven and probable reserves of 4.7 million tonnes at a grade of 27.77% graphitic carbon for 1.3 million tonnes graphite Measured and indicated resources stand at 65.5 million tonnes grading 17.2% graphitic carbon for 11.2 million tonnes contained graphite For more information, visit www.masongraphite.com. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Canadian Mining Journal provides information on new Canadian mining and exploration trends, technologies, mining operations, corporate developments and industry events. By continuing to use this website, you agree to the use of cookies in order to offer you content and services that are tailored to your interests. A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones" ? 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Read More Contact US Info@echo.ie Tel: +353 (0)1 4685350 We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again We lost the brightest Irish doctor of his generation to the UK It's rare for the brightest doctor of a generation to be one of the nicest but that was certainly the case for the late Professor Aidan Halligan a gentleman I was privileged to know for many years My first lessons from him were as a young medical student at Baggot Street Hospital Aidan passed away suddenly in April at the age of 57 having spent many years at the pinnacle of the UK health service He was professor of obstetrics at Leicester and rose to become Head of Governance in the NHS and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England his focus was on encouraging leadership and improving health services for homeless people and in disadvantaged areas Aidan was a great fan of Alice Leahy's Trust service in Dublin He was also the man who nearly became first leader of our HSE between accepting the job and taking office he spurned the doubling in salary on offer and the chance to improve the health service of a country that he loved What became clear as day to him was that he was being offered a job that had all the responsibilities and none of the power a stooge for government - always there for successive ministers and their mandarins in the Department of Health to hide behind The HSE is a whipping boy for the healthcare of whim It is the first and major casualty of an obsession with change for change's sake Political games have corroded the service and demoralised the good people trying to deliver it We didn't attract Aidan back to a leadership job he could have excelled at He knew you cannot lead when you are bound with puppet strings Aidan spoke his mind about various health services His mantra about the Irish health service was that it was over-managed and under-led He couldn't understand why ministers would spend millions commissioning reports from management consultants when much better expertise was already on the health-service payroll He was critical in Britain of a growing obsession with targets and box-ticking He said that health targets had become an end rather than a means and that politics had distorted healthcare priorities promoting initiatives that were "built on little clinical understanding and massive over-management" Ireland usually comes down with a nasty flu a few years later We tend to be late in adopting political fashions Our State's obsession with health targets is now beginning just as other countries are getting rid of them A quick look at the new contract GPs must sign There's an extra few bob for nagging parents who smoke There are height and weight boxes that are already being ticked by the parallel public-health-nurse service There's an extra €50 for each asthmatic identified There are €25 bonuses for stuffing a bleeding nose removing peas from an ear hole or freezing a verruca Not to mention a whopping €62 if social workers call the doctor to attend a case conference This sort of slot-machine healthcare is an embarrassment to a growing number of doctors who would rather be employed properly by a health service than moonlight as fee-per-item claim fillers It's quite clear to any layperson reading this contract that the HSE does not trust family doctors and that this lack of faith is reciprocated The under-sixes will still be paying their pocket money to doctors in the autumn I foresee a massive electoral headache for Doctor Leo A friend arrived down from Monaghan the other day with a wonderful new book for me about its local mental hospital World Within Walls is a history of St Davnet's which has been providing mental-health services to the area since 1869 40 young lads arrived at the hospital for interview who sat them all down in an examination room reminded candidates that smoking was not part of their test and allowed them a minute or two to put out their fags They were each handed a blank piece of paper on which they had to write their name The doctor then read out a passage from an anatomy book and asked the men to write down the spellings of particular words as he mentioned them One candidate said that "most of them had never heard of those high-style words They were then requested to write a topical essay on progress to date in World War II Some difficulty arose with the spelling of Russian cities there was a maths exam with plenty of tricky questions who passed the exam and worked in St Davnet's for the next 40 years said it was a miracle anyone passed this "phoney test" at all It was with some amusement that I discovered the psychiatrist in question was my late grandfather I would like to apologise to the young men of Cavan and Monaghan for the recruitment practices of yesteryear My grandfather came up the hard way with a scholarship and always preferred the academic achiever to the political stroke-puller Dr Maurice Gueret is editor of the 'Irish Medical Directory' Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Don't believe everything that you're told about the supposed benefits of eating certain foods Belarussian farmers harvest the mangel in their field tells me that every farmer in his area used to grow a root crop called mangels It was a member of the sugar-beet family and was used to feed milking cows during the winter Mangels were sometimes pulped and mixed with bran the mixture reckoned to have great human laxative properties My correspondent tells me that some folk substituted them for turnips in their dinner because turnips taint the taste of homemade butter farmers began to study the food value of animal feeds and it was discovered that mangels had little feeding value Which brings him nicely to the story of his neighbour Dan lived in an old farmhouse with two big ground-floor rooms the room on one side was the living area and kitchen and the room on the other was known as the parlour His solution was to repair the main living area and ignore the rest A neighbour later asked him if he intended to repair the whole house and Dan's response was that there were three things in this world in which he had no interest – women Nobody argued with him – he practiced what he preached A meeting was held over the winter involving the Adelaide Hospital Society a group that continues to espouse the independence of thought and practice that this old Dublin institution was renowned for A report on the proceedings landed on my desk recently and my eyes were drawn to the comments made by the hospital consultant who drew the very short straw of having myself as his first intern after the summer graduations of 1988 He chaired this meeting on hospital governance and a few of the points he made deserve a wider airing He summed up the meeting by saying that the primacy of the patient He said that Ireland seemed to be a nation that was more comfortable with publishing reports and recommendations than with implementing them by stating that two factors militate against all effective health planning – the four-year political cycle and the power of veto of local politicians No better man to get to the heart of our problems a man kept coming in with a medical card prescription for Leotone Tonic and a bottle of Dettol she drew him aside and asked quietly why he needed so many bottles of both His answer is one that she has never forgotten and the Dettol's for cleanin' up the yard after 'em!" I reckon some cutbacks could not come fast enough Mary also tells me a traditional remedy given to children in west Limerick by their mothers was three feeds of nettles every May but the ones given them never got a teenage spot A reader who hails from the district of Stoneybatter tells me of a popular remedy during his youth called Dr Collis-Browne's Chlorodyne which he thinks might have originated in India He says it once cured his bad cold and left him with a pleasant Chlorodyne was a concoction of laudanum (an opiate) The 'mixture' was invented by Dr John Collis-Browne and was originally used in the mid-19th Century on cholera patients – not but maybe to palliate their dying symptoms Collis-Browne later went into partnership in England with a chemist called Davenport it took off as a remedy for almost everything A plaque was once erected in the doctor's hometown to honour him and the event was described in a poem: "A crowd there was in Ramsgate Town To honour Dr Collis-Browne Whose Chlorodyne saved countless chaps Chlorodyne did not have as happy an ending as the doctor and overdoses – accidental or otherwise – featured in many coroner cases over the years Addicts would sometimes heat it on a spoon to get their pure dose of opium substituting ingredients or reducing the amount of others The cannabis was removed and the concentration of morphine was usually kept just below the stipulations of ever-changing dangerous drugs' legislation doctors at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London published a seminal paper suggesting that there were as many as 1,000 addicts in the city the scale of the problem with off-prescription morphine became clear It spelled the end for Dr Collis-Browne's remedy Countless chaps saved from even more mishaps Dr Maurice Gueret is editor of the ‘Irish Medical Directory’ www.drmauricegueret.com In perfect handwriting after his day with Young Scientists at the RDS Maurice Gueret worries about dentists and Bono Dr Ronan Cullen of the Trinity College School of Chemistry and Hannah Ridden (14) from Loreto Secondary School in Balbriggan preparing for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Competition Dr Maurice GueretMon 2 Feb 2015 at 03:30The highlight of last month was undoubtedly my annual trip to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at the RDS I confess to a long-standing chemical affinity with the event which probably dates from a bygone age when a former winner accompanied me to the school debs dance proud tradition of encouraging scientific thought and independent minds My institution obsessed about the forward momentum of rugby balls You would need a week to get around all of the projects on show this year A lovely girl from Monaghan had conducted research which proved definitively that the handwriting of doctors is actually much better than that of the general population So next time your chemist says he cannot read the prescription There was another fascinating display from a Cork student about the posture of dentists I did not know that four out of every five dentists suffer from muscular or spinal problems throughout their career or that 30pc of them had pain every single day So spare a thought for the clinician in the nice blue gown You may not be the only one in discomfort during a root canal treatment There were a number of good projects on allergies something that concerns younger people more than their masters in Government One project found that 64pc of schools do not have a protocol in place for dealing with a child who has a serious allergic reaction This country has suffered far too many anaphylactic-reaction tragedies and it beggars belief that neither the Department of Health nor the Department of Education earn any stars in this regard Looks like we are another fatal tragedy or two short of somebody actually doing something Should the mood ever take you to read the prose of a proper writer you could do no better than the late John McGahern I have been dipping in and out of Memoir in recent weeks and this story of an Irish rural childhood Young John went down with whooping cough as a youngster and as Mrs McGahern was a teacher his care was taken over by a possessive grandmother who locked him in a room for weeks without visitors The only time he was allowed out of that room in over a month was for a single ritual 'cure' A simple neighbour who was fond of the drink jennet or mule to the grandmother's house late on one very cold night The sick room was unlocked and the boy was wrapped in blankets before being passed beneath the animal three times McGahern recalled the frost glistening on the hard ground and the sky being full of stars Or have you any other ones that were used for whooping cough Fractured limbs are things that people don't bother too much about until they happen to them Bono's bicycling escapades made broken bones quite fashionable in recent weeks Now it's a long time since I treated anybody for an acute fracture but it was something I particularly enjoyed in my casualty days I found an old leaflet that was given to junior doctors on their first day in the trenches It gave three bits of advice for simple fractures 1: Straighten out or reduce the fracture early 2: Immobilise the bones until the bones unite 3: Take care of the soft tissues around the bone but the main danger is that you wouldn't spot a severed nerve or an unstable fracture If you can see bone jutting out through the skin that is known in the business as a compound fracture and needs a specialist opinion immediately Most adult fractures take six weeks to heal but you can double this for lower limb fractures The wonder of children is that their fractures often heal in half the time of adults I asked recently if there was a word for hangover and a kind reader whose "daughter is a dab hand at the old Gaeilge" tells me that poit (with a fada over the o) is the word for hangover This means that the drink poteen actually means 'a little hangover' although my informant imagines that a few glasses of the stuff might result in a hangover that would be far from little I have Dr Nicola de Faoite to thank for her Leaghanacha Leighis book which includes some choice Irish expressions that doctors can use when quizzing their patients about alcohol it translates nicely to na DTs and shakes are also known as na creathacha If you drink so much that you see strange things crawling on the walls you should tell your doctor about rudai aisteacha ag siul ar an mballa If the doctor then asks "An olann tu nios mo nios tapula na do chuid cairde?" he wants to know if you can down cuig pionta faster than your buddies While many young medical students are known to ask that question as a kind of challenge it generally means that they are hinting at alcoholism or alcolachas Next week we'll do a bit of uireolaiocht (urology) and examine your waterworks Dr Maurice Gueret is author of 'The Doctor's Case' MMA violence is a long way from Big Daddy versus Giant Haystacks Mon 2 May 2016 at 03:30When you grow up in a sibling-infested house an interest in combat sports becomes almost second nature Dublin was multi-channel-TV land in the 1970s and our weekly dose of fight training was delivered every Saturday afternoon on ITV's World of Sport The breakfast room doubled up nicely as a walled wrestling ring as a sturdy elder sister and I practised backbreakers Our tutors were characters we only knew from our television screen Giant Haystacks and a host of other professional nasties We didn't realise or even care that so much of Saturday wrestling was fixed and faked I'm not even sure if we were warned not to try this on loved ones at home Certainly nobody cared to ask how many doctors were at ringside and the obese and hairy leotard-wearers introduced by Dickie Davies are no more Today's children are being served up a strange diet they call mixed martial arts I do feel sorry for the kids of today who might be expected to copy their stars in the way their parents did before The recent death of a fighter in Dublin is no isolated tragedy MMA has been greatly troubled in its relatively short life by steroid abuse The fun of combat has been extracted and replaced by naked aggression I don't think it matters whether you have three or 300 doctors cageside or what their advanced resuscitation techniques are like This is a fight game that is storing up plenty of trouble for the future The real damage of mixed martial arts may not emerge until the brains of its participants are studied in pathology laboratories 40 years from now You cannot stop grown-up boy adults doing what comes naturally to some of them But you sure as hell can stop adorning this peculiar form of violence with glamour Surely GAA and rugby pitch-violence are more than enough fisticuffs for a sporting nation It was a naughty Oscar Wilde who declared that a man's face is his autobiography but a woman's face is her work of fiction Wilde first concocted this sexist observation on a trip to the United States which may have earned him the pardon of ladies living elsewhere 90pc of all cosmetic surgery procedures are still performed on women the UK's General Medical Council published a new code of rules for the doctors who perform 50,000 nips and tucks each year They also apply to British medics who deal in the syringe-happy world of Botox and fillers and need to be adopted here too before charlatans cross the Irish sea to a less regulated territory as is the offering of cosmetic procedures as prizes on Facebook or anywhere else Doctors need to personally manage the consent forms and not entrust the paperwork to a sales force or underlings Doctors cannot prescribe injectable treatments without physically examining the patient - video phone or web consultations are not acceptable Doctors are not allowed to tell patients that their procedures are risk free Patients need to be provided with contact details in the event of complications or emergencies You might think such things would be second nature but the experience of many patients when things go wrong in fly-by-night cosmetic surgery has not been positive This worldwide industry needs serious treatment A reader has asked me to write a few words about POTS - an acronym for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome which first came to my attention 10 years ago when it struck one of the Australian children's entertainers known as The Wiggles It was a major disappointment in our household that Greg Wiggle (aka Greg Page; the original yellow one) couldn't make the concert in Dublin the illness caused him to drop out of the group entirely It is a group of symptoms that occur when the sufferer stands up from a reclining condition POTS is due to a problem with the autonomic nervous system it regulates blood flow according to your posture This condition has possibly been around for longer than we realise Medical historians in the United States believe it may once have been known as Civil War Syndrome and was cited as a condition that prevented some young men from being conscripted into the army A few international centres such as Minnesota's Mayo Clinic have set up POTS treatment centres but to date there has been little input from the Irish health service towards a dedicated service for patients here though there are a few specialists who have experience in diagnosing the condition The new National Rare Disease Office at the Mater Hospital is worth a call for those who have been diagnosed and there is also a Facebook page set up by patients called Irish Dysautonomia Awareness In Maurice Gueret's column he writes about Bono's vox and the world's oldest living married couple in Japan Poor Bono has been in stage wars again with his voice And it's not the first time lyrics have deserted him as vocal fatigue set in on tour Doubtless he has a good throat specialist (laryngologist) to peer down at his cords at intervals and make sure all is OK in the section on conditions of the larynx said that you should never make a diagnosis of chronic laryngitis until other lesions causing hoarseness are carefully excluded this means ongoing symptoms should be investigated with X-rays or scans having a look with a scope and a biopsy if needed Chronic laryngitis can be an occupational hazard The habitual shouting of sergeant-majors and barrow boys also makes them vulnerable to the condition Singers with long careers are prone to getting little bruise-like nodules on their vocal cords that may need to be removed But he may not be able to bellow out U2's back catalogue indefinitely There is a lot of money at stake when stadium bands go on tour The deals that are done are covered by insurance and insurers get nervous when recurring ailments cancel gigs Bono needs to mind and rest that precious 'Bono vox' of his A welcome initiative has been announced to get hospital doctors to write letters in plain English to their patients Getting them to write anything at all could be the first hurdle Traditional medical practice has been for consultants to write to the patient's GP But now the UK's Royal Colleges have got together with a suggestion that hospitals write directly to the patient using friendly language and just copy the same letter to the family doctor Acronyms and Latin abbreviations are to be avoided You will not be referred to as the diabetic The swelling at the bottom of your legs becomes just that - bipedal oedema is out Other banned words include cerebral (brain) pulmonary (lung) and even paediatric (child) Words like chronic may become a thing of the past Doctors use chronic to describe something long-standing it may be a case of bad timing for the College of Anaesthetists in Ireland to announce that it wants to add three syllables to its trade name The doctors who put you to sleep want to be known now as anaesthesiologists and the vote was quite close at 60/40 to join their American cousins in ology-land One medical journalist joked that it had taken her a full decade to learn how to spell anaesthesia and anaesthetist in the first place A senior officeholder at the college called it a "massive opportunity to rebrand the speciality and let the wider public know that anaesthesiologists are indeed perioperative specialist physicians" I'd say the yawning public would be better served by a rethink from our perioperative specialist gasmen of anaesthesiology Nursing homes don't grab nice headlines too often so it was pleasing to see Japanese couple Mr and Mrs Matsumoto celebrate a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records at their care centre They are the world's oldest living married couple that the secret ingredient of their long life and marriage has been her patience eat with chopsticks and share a retirement room in the port city of Takamatsu There was an interesting paper on centenarians in Europe published last winter which revealed that just one in six of our centenarians is male It also found that two-thirds of centenarians still live at home Ireland is the only country with a Centarian Bounty of two-and-a-half grand from the President They send up to 10 cheques a week from Aras an Uachtaran and I'd be interested to know from our esteemed President (if he is not too busy) roughly how many are posted to care centres and how many are sent to private homes Central Africa Stock Exchange Sees 98% Drop in Trading Value in Q1 2025 Kribi Bitumen Plant Set to Start Construction in 2025 with Government Backing CEMAC Bond Market Hits CFA 8.45 Trillion in March 2025, Interest Rates Drop Cameroon’s Timber Output Projected to Rise in 2025 Despite Higher Export Taxes Mboa Paris Trains 30 Young Cameroonians to Boost Tech and Entrepreneurship Cameroon Audit Targets Former Officials for Mismanagement in Agricultural Project Camwater Seeks Global Bids to Launch Bottled Water Lines in Five Cities Bafoussam Workshop Highlights Benefits of Cameroon-EU Trade Agreement Cameroon Could Reach 350,100 Tons of Cotton in 2025 (Beac) Paul Biya Appoints Johnny Razack as Chair of Cameroon’s National Investment Company Cameroon Refuses Work Visa Renewal for Casino and Super U Boss Over Toxic Workplace Claims Cameroon Joins Global Charter to Fight Illegal Fishing Cameroon Launches Construction of New Gas Filling Center in Kumba Cameroon Launches New CFA15bn Bond Issue After Recent Success Cameroon Eases Port Procedures to Keep CFA350bn in Chadian Transit Trade Douala Doubles Water Storage in Key Districts with New Reservoir Cameroon’s Supreme Court Reaffirms Exclusive Authority Over Public Finance Management "11 of the World’s 20 Fastest-Growing Economies in 2025 Are in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Amadou Sy, IMF) Douala Airport Customs Seizes $2.3mln Worth of Cocaine Bound for India Douala Port Shares CFA2bn in Rebates with Shippers and Shipping Lines in 2024 New Sosucam CEO Faces Tough Start as Worker Tensions Linger Rubber Output in Cameroon Could Reach 59,100 Tons in 2025 (BEAC) Cameroon Could Hit Highest Cocoa Output in Over Five Years Cameroon and Chad to Inaugurate CFA74bn Cross-Border Bridge on April 28 Cameroon Ranks Last in Global Fiber Optic Development Index Cameroon’s Finance Ministry Denies Budget Fraud After Audit Flags Irregularities Mbam Bridge Project in Cameroon Reassigned to CFHEC, Budget Increased Alucam Faces Financial Crisis: Audit Calls for CFA43bn Recapitalization to Avoid Shutdown CSPH Begins Construction of Ebolowa Gas Filling Center, Expected to Open in 2027 Cameroon Turns to BEAC Market for CFA25bn as Interest Rates Surge Cameroon’s Natural Gas Output Expected to Jump 23% in 2025 After Slump Every week the economy and investment news from Cameroon Will Dr Leo take his eye off the ball if Enda makes him the Health and Sport minister A cabinet reshuffle has been on the cards now for some time We wait for the Labour Party to conclude deliberations on who shall lead them to glorious defeat at the next general election I’m old enough to remember Frank Cluskey — that rare breed of Irish party leader who managed to lose his Dail seat and leave his party in abject disarray You are sure of one thing with a well-meaning Labour Party Their expertise in repeating mistakes of the past is unrivalled Once junior-partner doomsday preparations are out of the way Enda will begin his bout of musical chairs There is loose talk that the Minister for Sport Holidays and Automobiles may now become Minister for Sport and Health Those who don’t ponder too deeply suggest that sport and health are ideal bedfellows a premise based on an idle implication that participation in the former usually leads to the latter Tagging it with social welfare or children or ballroom dancing or 
whatever the ministerial fancy of the day The Health Department might serve better if we changed its name to Illness and focused it solely on treatment of the sick And we don’t want the Department to return to the bad old days when Micheal Martin put off major reforms and sponsored snooker tournaments instead I was pleased to see a letter in the Medical Independent recently from an asthma specialist on the subject of salt therapy and what he called the unjustifiable marketing of same The chairman of the Asthma Society’s Medical Advisory Group was writing about 
a growing trend for patients with breathing difficulties to be enticed into salt 
caves or salt-encrusted 
chambers The doctor was clear to point out that there is no evidence that these treatments are inherently unsafe There is a clear risk that patients will abandon proven treatments which may lead to more illness and deaths from respiratory disorders The best advice is always to consult with your team or asthma nurse before passing good money for salt I have written before about food-intolerance testing and wish we had more doctors with an interest 
in allergy who would 
speak out for patients who pay large amounts of 
money for these tests It’s 
a source of concern that 
a growing number of Irish pharmacies when UK counterparts were advised by a parliamentary report some years ago not to There’s a healthy profit margin in food-intolerance testing GPs countrywide could join in the jamboree and charge very large amounts of money for doing so And prospective patients might ask pharmacies why they do tests that are not done in doctors’ surgeries the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland issued guidance on testing in pharmacies which said there must be an established clinical and scientific evidence base and should be provided in line with relevant national healthcare strategy But what patients really deserve is a specific ruling on food intolerance tests Your tales of black ointment continue to proliferate recalls getting “black stuff” from a GP who had just returned from Africa her shins came out in dark lumps that looked like bruises but all were puzzled and no diagnosis was ever made The returning doctor from Africa visited her house with a tub of medicine to which he applied the scientific name “black stuff” Margaret recalls that she was a bit afraid of it and disliked the smell teachers and neighbours were all convinced of the magical power of this “black stuff” and Margaret remembers that the GP became very well known in Co Wicklow and beyond She was treated with the 
steroid prednisolone Might there have been steroids 
in that magical potion 
all those years ago where 
she needed her lower 
spine injected 
And I give you her own words: “Disposable plastic apron over once-white 
shirt assuredly unacquainted with the inside of a cleaners Trailing edge of it did not disguise scruffiest pair of shoes ever.” He was the consultant Mrs L knows her medical history and wondered if she had done a time shift to the days before Lister Ireland's poor record on detecting health fraud and catching bogus doctors comes as little surprise to Maurice Gueret Mon 8 Aug 2016 at 03:30The story of how the founder of the Console suicide charity masqueraded as a doctor in a Dublin casualty department back in 1983 caught everyone's imagination this summer Those of us who trained at the Royal City of Dublin Hospital on Baggot Street in the 1980s were familiar with the story though few would have believed that the bogus medic would go on to claim millions of euro from the HSE for his services to mental health The incident was a major embarrassment for a small hospital where just about everyone knew everyone There were other candidates for the casualty job and nobody rumbled his lack of a medical qualification before he started work The hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary the previous year only to find out that its long-term future was in doubt A thrusting young Trinity Senator named Shane Ross had just been appointed to the board 1983 saw both the retirement of the Matron after a decade in charge and the appointment of the hospital's first ever full-time chaplain the junior doctors at the time did recollect that their new casualty officer wasn't all that sociable He tended to avoid the daily camaraderie at the doctors' residence It was noticed that Kelly preferred the company of medical students to qualified personnel The benefit of hindsight suggests he was trying to pick up some diagnostic tips and acumen from students rather than imparting his own more limited clinical knowledge to them Ireland doesn't have a particularly proud record when it comes to detecting health fraud In recent years we have seen cases of bogus surgeons performing home circumcisions There was a gentleman in south Dublin who masqueraded as a family doctor for a number of years without question referred patients for tests and admissions at the local hospital and even invited a local TD to perform constituency political clinics at his surgery He was reported to both medical authorities and the police but it would appear that no case was ever taken against him I don't believe anyone ever even bothered to check the care of his former 'patients' The mass misuse of money at Console isn't the first such scandal at an Irish charity The bigger issue is that those who fund these organisations with millions of euro of your money need to be given a role in rationalising the whole sector The best way to ensure good management in the voluntary sector is to insist that duplicate organisations become one There are too many home-grown charities in our voluntary sector - foreign aid homelessness and drugs are distinctly overpopulated fields that come to mind But the number of 'mental health' charities really takes the biscuit Huge amounts of money are siphoned off down the suicide-prevention sideline instead of properly funding and better organising the State mental-health services that already exist GPs need access to a responsive psychiatric service for public as well as private patients there weren't enough psychiatrists to go around but the ones we had tended to stay in their jobs for life Today the turnover of consultant psychiatrists is such that very often local GPs don't even know the name of the person they are supposed to refer to Earlier this year I wrote to one mental-health service in Dublin and they were unable to provide me with a list of their psychiatrists available for referral Theresa May's new regime across the water is determined to ensure that family doctors don't receive a penny more than the pound of flesh they are due NHS England has hired an outsourcing company to review the patient lists of 8,000 GP surgeries across England What they are looking for are 'ghost patients' who have not been getting sick often enough Anyone who has not visited the doctor in the previous five years will be written to and delisted if they don't reply within six months Some GPs are up in arms at what they call 'list-cleaning.' They claim that low-visiting groups such as older children and young men may miss out on future care NHS England plan on saving more than £100 a year for each 'cleaned' patient All the more to invest in outsourced management University Challenge is back on the box and all is well again My hand shot up the other evening when Jeremy Paxman asked which country celebrates Respect for the Aged Day It's Japan's public holiday that was originally called Old Folk's Day until the PC police got their hands on it the year Japan started handing out silver sake cups to every citizen who reached 100 and politicians are getting worried about the ever-increasing cost of the cups They considered a proposal to make them out of a cheaper metal Another bright spark said that they could be replaced by a congratulatory letter instead they took a leaf from chocolate manufacturers and decided to reduce the size of the cup A Respect for Politicians Day could be some time off Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.