INTERTWINGLEMENTS Unravelling the tangle……..
Unravelling the tangle of The Leadership Agenda and a few other things….Archive for Intertwinglements
A New Year, A New Beginning
Round about April Fool’s day 2007, The Witch Doctor was asked by The Oldest Sage Witch to find out what the hell was going on in the UK regarding something called MTAS. She felt it was more that just a fiasco affecting junior doctors’ job prospects. She felt it was a symptom of very deep rooted and far reaching changes in UK Healthcare. The Oldest Sage Witch was fuming because these changes, regarding the healthcare of a nation, were being imposed without any valid consultation process.
The Oldest Sage Witch had every right to fume!
And so,“The Witch Doctor” blog began in the spring of 2007 at the time of the MTAS fiasco. The Witch Doctor was appalled at how these young doctors were being treated by a government whose main aim seemed to be to demoralise the medical profession prior to carving up the NHS for the benefit of large multi-national companies. What appalled The Witch Doctor even more, was that most of the medical profession seemed to be oblivious of the magnitude of the problem, and the fact that there were attempts to replace professionalism with a morass of tangled competencies.
Gradually, after much thinking and reading, The Witch Doctor came to the conclusion that the NHS is a bystander being caught up in changes that are deep-rooted within The Heart of Government, and what we are seeing may be the consequence of hubris surrounding a new elite class in society, The Political Class, who are no longer representing the electorate. She also feels there is an element of fear fostering a motivation for “Change” in the three main political parties – fear of loss of western power as the world reconfigures itself. She first thought of this when she wrote a bizarre post “CHINA IS THE REASON FOR MMC”
Unfortunately, the word “Change” in the context of all political parties has The Witch Doctor totally bamboozled.
Until now, The Witch Doctor has had no interest in politics whatsoever, but she is passionate about Freedom (it seems we all have to be passionate about something nowadays).
The Witch Doctor is troubled by the possibility that Freedom is being eroded in the UK by a process we witches call CREEP and by the use of a new language intended to obfuscate and confuse.
This required to be investigated further, and so The Witch Doctor blog continued long after MTAS lost its momentum.
Then, a second WD blog was born.
THE WITCH DOCTOR’S AIDE MEMOIRE
This site, is an attempt to organise information. It is one of The Witch Doctor’s many Aide Memoire’s – relating to the future of the NHS, practice of medicine in the UK today, and where the government is sitting in all of this.
It’s a bit scrappy and gets neglected at times but you might learn something if you read it.
You probably won’t.
After all, it’s just for me.
A very personal thing.
Intended to try to organise a complex, meandering, messy witch’s brain.
A kind of Continuing Professional Development for witches.
Not really suitable for The Humankind!
And then something happened that resulted in a third blog!
THE WITCH DOCTOR’S RAMBLINGS ON FRUIT AND CHOCOLATE
A doctor from the Land of the Picts dared to suggest that we should all be forced to stop eating chocolate! Presumably he wanders about with cold porridge in his sporran and snacks all day from that.
It so happens, that witches like to do as they please, so The Witch Doctor responded by doing a blog of her two favourite foods – one is considered healthy the other is not. We witches believe that most foods, including chocolate, are healthy. The hazard exists in the amount and frequency with which certain foods and drinks are eaten or imbibed.
It is a neglected blog, but if any doctor, politican or anyone else tries to put a tax on chocolate, The Witch Doctor will respond by bombarding this site with chocolate recipes.
She even has a recipe for chicken with a chocolate sauce!
And now, to celebrate the start of a new year, here is a fourth and probably final blog.
This is a blog that is only suitable for those that like doing jigsaws or unraveling a ball of wool that has been molested by a lively kitten.
During the course of blogging on medical matters WD became irritated by the obsession with “leadership.” So much so that she wondered if there was some kind of “leadership agenda” going on, not just within medicine but in UK society as a whole. She was certainly not impressed by most of the “Medical Leaders” in her neck of the wood. She considered many to be weak “followers” who were trying to climb a greasy pole to satisfy their own dubious and not very altruistic needs and inadequacies. It was the medical “leaders” who irritated her, much more than the non-medical managers and administrators within the health service who were only doing the job they were paid to do in order to pay the mortgage. They could not say “no” and keep their job. The medical managers could say “no” but seldom did.
It was then, quite by chance, she stumbled upon “Common Purpose,” a charity that ran leadership courses for all and sundry, as long as these candidates were chosen by senior Common Purpose staff. She discovered some members of her own health board were attending these courses and wondered why she had never heard of this outfit. This upset WD because we witches like to think we know everything that is going on round about us. She was rather intrigued how these Common Purpose leadership courses had passed below her radar and when she asked around none of her medical colleagues had heard of Common Purpose either. She concluded that Common Purpose was just another leadership course of little importance. Nevertheless, she explored this outfit further and discovered Common Purpose intertwingled very closely with other interesting establishments that had influence on many areas of society including government itself.
Who knows whether these intertwinglements are important or not……
My Black Cat thinks she uncovered a conspiracy surrounding Common Purpose and she became very excited. Since “Intertwinglements” is not in any way a conspiracy website, and WD believes in Creep rather than conspiracies, My Black Cat will be banned from entering “Intertwinglements” although from time to time she skulks around The Witch Doctor blog and talks utter drivel.
To make this blog more interesting, The Witch Doctor has decided she will follow three strands to see how each intertwingles within itself, and to see whether all three intertwingle with each other. There is one thing that she is certain to find….. charities and charitisation will twingle and tangle all over the place! The three strands she will explore are topics that she currently finds interesting, namely The Common Purpose Leadership Agenda, Assisted Dying and Integrated Medicine.
Who knows whether all three will intertwingle with each other?
And if they do, will it matter?
The Witch Doctor plans, slowly but surely to find out.
INTERTWINGLEMENTS Unravelling the tangle........ 