I met with a senior planner on Friday who had just finished working on a large piece of research with a group of doctors. He said that the rise in visits from patients who ‘just felt down’ was noticeable. The suggestion was that the recessionary doom was impacting on our mental state. No surprise I […]

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of pounding the pavements with an outreach team working with street-homeless people. We met up for a bite to eat at seven and for the next five hours odd we walked around the west end talking to people who are sleeping rough. The evening was fascinating, surprising, harrowing, […]

I’m working on our budgets (what joy) and the question on my mind is how we should be charging for our fine services.  We have obviously put together a rate card, which reflects our costs, and how long we think it will take to do stuff. It looks quite sensible and competitive. But is this the […]