Pulse How to...Influence commissioning of mental health care Work by Lord Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, showed that mental health is Britain’s biggest social problem, costing 4% of the GDP. The political push he generated resulted in the introduction of the DHs Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=40&storycode=4119469&c=3 (subscription)
This is Money Ministers need help, not the Bank Those who think the regulators were not up to speed should do a bit of research. They could start with a speech that Sir Howard Davies delivered when he was still running the FSA (and he has been gone five years) in which he clearly and explicitly warned about the invention of collateralised loan obligations and credit default swaps and described them as toxic. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/columnists/article.html?in_article_ id=442683&in_page_id=19&ito=1565
Episcopal Life Online Tutu says only Gaza solution is for both sides to sit down and talk Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he and his delegation co-expert Christine Chinkin, professor of international law at the London School of Economics, were ‘shocked’ at the conditions they found in Gaza and the testimonies they heard from the survivors of the attack they came to investigate. Tutu also urged militants to stop launching rockets at Israel. http://www.episcopal-life.org/81808_97711_ENG_HTM.htm
LSE people on TV/radio
BBC Radio 4 The World at One (9 June) Today the Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced his new strategy for narrowing the gap between rich and poor in terms of their health. Professor Julian LeGrand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, was interviewed for the programme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/wato/
