Right. Hon. The Lord Mayor of Leeds

David Oliver: Is Lord Prior right about scrapping beds?

On 5 October the Daily Mirror reported that the Conservative “NHS productivity minister,” Lord Prior, had told the management consultancy McKinsey that the English NHS should scrap half of its hospital beds. Prior had form: in his recent role as supposedly neutral chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) he courted media attention for personal views. For instance, he told theDaily Telegraph t...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

The Gardens of the Lord

Mathias Mayor (1775–1847)

Steno's inability to explain an affair of the soul such as pain in terms of the impact of matter reveals the dualist split between science and religion which makes itself increasingly perceptible at the time and seems to have troubled him fundamentally. Had earlier scientific men such as Harvey and Van Helmont been perhaps happier in their monist view of the world and of the 'working-matter' in...

The Report of Dr. Forbes Winslow to the Right Hon. The Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal