Modern Greek Literature, Translation Prize; 2017 MGSA Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize

"The MGSA is pleased to announce the 2017 Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize Competition for original, new translations into English of a literary work published in Modern Greek. A prize of $500 will be awarded for a piece of Modern Greek literature (poetry, prose, theatre) translated into English. We welcome work by scholars of Modern Greek and other fields and languages as well as creative writers, students, and anyone knowledgeable of Greek and English engaged in the work of translation". Modern Greek Studies Association.

NHS Health Check: Which local services are under threat? BBC

"You may not know it, but over the past year local NHS leaders across England have been meeting to draw up plans to overhaul the health service".

Revealed: NHS faces GP recruitment crisis as 40% of doctors approach retirement - inews

"An i investigation into blueprints for the NHS around the country reveals scant planning as almost 40 per cent of GPs approach retirement...Nursing recruits plummet 23% - A similar issue is also looming in nursing, with the number of recruits plummeting by 23 per cent due to the removal of the Government’s bursary scheme and applications from the European Union plunging by 90 per cent due to Brexit. It comes a week after the Royal College of Midwives reported a similar recruitment issue with the number of new recruits failing to match the number of midwives due for retirement".

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/nhs/revealed-nhs-gp-recruitment-crisis-40-approach-retirement/


The full list of the 24 A&E units marked for closure, inews

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/nhs/full-list-24-aes-marked-closure/


NHS ‘must avoid hiring cheaper nurses to fill gaps’

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/nhs/nhs-must-avoid-hiring-cheaper-nurses-fill-gaps/

10 million GP appointments are lost every year to no shows

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/health/10-million-gp-appointments-lost-every-year-no-shows/


NHS cuts 15,000 beds in six years: One in ten have been axed - equivalent to closing 24 hospitals, report reveals, MailOnline

BBC TV, Hospital, Episode 6- In this episode, surgeons are forced to use unconventional methods to get their operations completed against the odds.


NHS: LORD SAATCHI says the Government must set up a Royal Commission into its future, MailOnline


Centre for Policy Studies report (Maurice Saatchi) -pdf

"Regardless of one’s perspective on the NHS – the pessimistic view that it is in, or on the brink of, crisis; a belief that the system is performing adequately but faces looming longterm challenges; or the optimistic position that the NHS will continue providing worldclass healthcare if just left to its own devices by meddling politicians – a Royal Commission is the potential game-changer to meet and sustain it for decades to come. Whereas piecemeal reforms may end up overwhelmed by the system’s wider problems, or last only the lifetime of an individual government, a Royal Commission is an opportunity to find common ground on some of the most serious problems the NHS is facing today, as well as the challenges and opportunities still ahead".

As long as it's not yet another PR/consultancy-designed CCG-style "public consultation document"!


Thousands of doctors trained in Europe 'may quit UK after Brexit', The Guardian -BMA warns of impending ‘disaster’ as its research shows 40% of doctors who qualified in EEA may leave because they feel less welcome

 

The Pitt Rivers Museum, a pioneer of ‘visual repatriation’ – returning photographs to communities

From Oxford Today, Olivia Gordon - By way of anthropology: Museum’s photos go on an extraordinary journey home

Greece/IMF: No more pension cuts!

Greece’s Labour minister tells Lagarde “No further pension cuts” via FT and KTG

"Greek Minister of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity, Effie Achtsioglou, sent an open letter to Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, about the state of pensions in Greece",

Britain- sliding towards Scoxit? Tony Blair's New Movement and Mission

From The Economist

"For a country of 5m people...to go it alone would be a gamble. Yet Scots may conclude that remaining in the Brexit-bound union would be riskier still".

Tony Blair, Open Britain, some reactions (Guido Fawkes...)

Ex-PM Blair says Brits should 'rise up' against Brexit, EU Observer

Tony Blair: debilitated Labour is facilitating a disastrous Brexit, The Guardian

Blair Urges Brexit Opponents to Rise Up and Fight to Stay in EU, Bloomberg

Ham-theatrics? MailOnline

Labour MPs challenge Tony Blair over Brexit speech, The Guardian

EU Withdrawal ~ The Three Knights Opinion

British overseas territories set out their Brexit priorities - Representatives of 10 territories try to ensure they are not overlooked in talks

"Bermuda, the most populous of the overseas territories, said its priority was free movement with the EU. “The travel is the most important thing because many Bermudians travel a lot,” said Mr Dunkley. The island’s financial sector would be less affected, he argued, given it already had equivalency status under the EU’s Solvency II directive"

The Greek Project, Study Tours

First time I've seen this advertisement

It looks like like a good initiative

2017 Study Tours

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