The problem with us Brits is that when handed the impossible to deliver we actually go ahead and do it, methodically, honestly, and with many a sincere task and finish group. Which is probably why I am still staring at the list of my novated public health contracts, which came over just before 1 April […]
Category: Mary E Black
Mary E Black: Do we really need to have so many meetings?
It’s my fourth month working for public health in the local authority and I’ve had yet another request to join a stakeholder meeting. This time it’s from NHS England to hear about a new immunisation pilot … and the meeting will be held in Wimbledon. Wimbledon? We work 30 miles away in Havering… I have […]
Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers
Plagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in fumigators, herbal remedies, and the plague suit – predecessor of the DuPont TK555T HazMat suit, and equally unsettling for nervous patients. Quacks (from the old […]