Spot on Coddy, when I worked for the NHS I spent a few weeks working in the mental health hospital at York. The staff were complaining then about not enough beds and how funding was only ever prioritised for frontline, "regular" hospital care. But the biggest complaint was how patients they knew should really be an in-patient were being released (or never admitted in the first place) to care in the community. And then that care in the community was woeful.

A good mate of mine took voluntary redundancy/early retirement from the HNS at the beginning of the year, after getting sick and tired of being pissed around and undervalued over the last few years. He was an experienced mental health nursing sister. He did some agency work for a while after leaving, getting paid £350 a shift, often working at the hospital he'd just left. But even that got to him in the end and now he's doing a couple of days a week for a local spice-supply company.

When the coalition crow about all the managers they got shut of from the NHS, they conveniently forget that many we -re-employed on a contract basis, often at greater cost. But that money comes from a different account and is effectively off-balance sheet and is therefore viewed as a saving

Back to Evans, today the CCRC has begun its review of his case, which could take 9 months



What's odd is why they are being so coy in actually spelling out why prioritising Evans "accords with their policy". Basically, "it just does, OK?".

It'd be interesting to see a poll on whether the public think Evans is guilty or not.

I hope if he's found innocent people who have publicly come out in criticism of him and Sheffield United have the stones to publicly apologise.
Likewise if it's upheld, start looking for another job Mr E.

It's not their job. The most he can hope for is if they decide there are grounds to refer the case on to the appeal court. That wouldn't mean any appeal would automatically succeed.

Well over 50% of cases that the CCRC refers to the Court of Appeal get quashed.

This one could be interesting. I just hope Jessica Ennis et al have the decency to eat their words if it gets quashed on appeal.

I don't particularly think Ennis has reason to "eat her words". I imagine her objection was to having a convicted rapist at the club. A position I have a lot of sympathy with. If his appeal is successful then he won't be a convicted rapist.

He will, however, be a man who, despite his fame and money and steady milionaire's daughter girlfriend, was happy to go to a seedy hotel room and perform oral sex and sloppy seconds on a woman he had never met, and having got his rocks off, left her alone while he pulled his kecks back on, sneaked out the fire exit and no doubt went home and played the doting boyfriend. For some reason his girlfriend hasn't dumped him, but while he may rightly be cleared of being a rapist, he won't be cleared of behaving like a scumbag.

Do Premier Inn do special rates for seedy rooms? Are they more or less than normal rooms?