Hospital beds will be filled by the elderly and the vulnerable because of cuts to local government care, a senior health service figure warned today.
Nigel Edwards, the head of the NHS Confederation, said the pressure on beds could mean that hospitals would be unable to admit patients “who badly need care”.
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Manchester
A thousand people marched in Manchester today against the cuts. Unions from across Manchester joined with campaign groups, students, pensioners and others to show their opposition to the cuts.
The protest started outside the BBC, where workers are fighting management attacks on their pensions.
Sharon Green, president of Manchester Trades Council and a member of the PCS union, said, “There is not a person in Manchester who will not be affected by the cuts in jobs and services. Today is the start of a fight.”
Kathy Gallagher from the Law Centres Federation spoke about the attacks on community law centres saying, “Both South Manchester and Wythenshawe face cuts. If they close these law centres we will be the only big city without one. There will be no advice for asylum seekers, no advice for the homeless. People will be denied access to justice.”
Karen Reissman, a health campaigner and member of the Socialist Workers Party, also spoke at the rally.
She said, “The government could have taxed the rich—they choose instead to attack the poor. With 23 millionaires in the cabinet, what do they know about the real world? They have never faced the choice of eating or heating.
“I do not want to fight the cuts corner by corner. We all need to be out together. We must launch a fight on a scale never seen before. We will have to push for a general strike.”
Are we in the midst of a cull? it seems a bit like the night of the long knives.Worries me when they seem to be dumping some experience candidates. Who’s next for the chop i remember one call i had about Hazel wanting to see new blood, Could be all rubbish i get that many emails and calls.
• The database records 109,032 deaths in total for the period
• The database records the following death counts: 66,081 civilians, 23,984 insurgents and 15,196 Iraqi security forces
• The worst place for deaths was Baghdad – 45,497, followed by MND north (which is the region that goes from Baghdad up to Kurdistan) where another 34,210 died. The quietest place was the north east with only 328 deaths
• 34,814 people were recorded as murdered in 24,840 incidents
• The worst month was December 2006 with 2,566 murders – and 2006 was the worst year with 16,870 murders
• The database records 12,578 escalation of force incidents (where someone is shot driving too fast at a checkpoint, for instance) – and these resulted in 778 recorded deaths
• There were 65,439 IED explosions over the period – with 31,780 deaths recorded on the database from those alone.
• There were another 44,620 IEDs found and cleared
• The worst month for IED explosions was May 2007 with 2,080 IED explosions
The Guardian has decided not to republish the entire database, largely because we can’t be sure the summary field doesn’t contain confidential details of informants and so on. But, so you have some data to play with, we have provided this spreadsheet. It contains the records of every incident where someone dies, nearly 60,000 in all. We have removed the summary field so it’s just the basic data: the military heading, numbers of deaths and the geographic breakdown.
Google Fusion tables is fantastic for mapping out bulky datasets and they don’t come much bulkier than this. We took all these incidents where someone had died and put it on the map above. The fullscreen version is easier to use. A few of the datapoints aren’t mapping correctly – but this may be a problem with the data.
You can download it below, plus we’ve broken down the deaths by cause and year in sortable tables. What can you do with it?
• DATA: download details of every death in Iraq (Google Fusion tables)
• DATA: download our analysis spreadsheet
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Last night i went to the National Care awards at old Trafford,it cost £750.00 for a table of nine,there must have been over 60 tables we had the worst meal i have ever had,cheap plonk and £3.80 a pint for the beer,now i don’t go out a lot but Question .
Have i just helped contribute to that Money grabbing scouse git’s wallet, Someone who as played crap for the last couple of month slags of the club and then gets one of the most obscene pay raises ever.
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