 a nigh on impossible task. However, he can indeed count many successes, which include the ‘choose and book’ scheme for patients to select a hospital and appointment time online. The DoH has also pointed out that the national use of the PACS has cut diagnosis times from over six days to under three.
Nearing the end of 10-year role as Prime Minister, Tony Blair visited healthcare workers and, when addressing an audience at the King’s Fund in London reflected on a decade of progress in the National Health Service. Healthcare, he declared, is ‘…no longer the preserve of the lucky or well-connected’.
Welcoming the Prime Minister, Secretary of State, Chairman of the British Medical Association, CEO of the Long Term Conditions Alliance, Policy Director of the NHS Confederation and many other healthcare leaders, Niall Dickson, CEO of the Kings Fund confirmed that the country had seen 10 years of ‘significant change, with unprecedented levels of funding that will leave health spending in Britain at or around the average for the EU’. He also added that the Fund believes there have been significant improvements in key areas, but also ‘missed opportunities as well as serious challenges and difficult decisions ahead’.
Four reports had been published by the DoH, coinciding with PM Blair’s meeting at the Fund.  Focusing on reforms and measures introduced in the early phase of the government, they cite these improvements of include a maximum waiting time of four hours per patient in Accident and Emergency; a 40% reduction in heart disease; 99% of patients with suspected cancer are seen within two weeks; and suicides have been at their lowest since records began.
Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing said that he never expected such a success on waiting lists and waiting times and better funding has been achieved under this government. However, he pointed out that the average nurse earns £24,000, making this the lowest paid of the professional groups. He also pointed out the ‘brutal’ deficits issue of the couple of years, and the number of healthcare workers redundancies that have been undertaken. He also made significant points about the way people were promoted beyond their then abilities, only to lose jobs later, and much else on personnel handling, as well as that of the various strategic health authorities. In his 38-year career in the NHS, he said, he had never ever seen so much money in the service, and sadly, in some areas, never seen so much wasted.
However, in conclusion, he said overall this government is to be commended, though not for the pay offer to the lowest paid people in the NHS.
At the time of going to press, incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s selection of leaders for the country’s healthcare remain unknown.
<filename>app/User.php
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password','remember_token',
    ];

    public static $rules = [
        "name" => "required",
        "email" => "required",
        "province_id" => "required"
    ];
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | ACL Methods
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */

    /**
     * Checks a Permission
     *
     * @param  String permission Slug of a permission (i.e: manage_user)
     * @return Boolean true if has permission, otherwise false
     */
    public function canPerm($permission = null)
    {
        return!is_null($permission) && $this->checkPermission($permission);
    }

    /**
     * Check if the permission matches with any permission user has
     *
     * @param  String permission slug of a permission
     * @return Boolean true if permission exists, otherwise false
     */
    protected function checkPermission($perm)
    {
        $permissions = $this->getAllPernissionsFormAllRoles();
        
        $permissionArray = is_array($perm)? $perm : [$perm];

        return count(array_intersect($permissions, $permissionArray));
    }

    /**
     * Get all permission slugs from all permissions of all roles
     *
     * @return Array of permission slugs
     */
    protected function getAllPernissionsFormAllRoles()
    {
        $permissionsArray = [];

        $permissions = $this->roles->load('permissions')->fetch('permissions')->toArray();
        
        return array_map('strtolower', array_unique(array_flatten(array_map(function ($permission) {

            return array_fetch($permission, 'permission_slug');

        }, $permissions))));
    }

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Relationship Methods
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
   
    /**
     * Many-To-Many Relationship Method for accessing the User->roles
     *
     * @return QueryBuilder Object
     */
    public function roles()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('App\Role');
    }
    public function member()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Province');
    }

    public function province()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Province');
    }

    public function isMain(){
        return $this->roles()->where('name', '=','main')->exists();
    }

    public function rolesList(){
        return $this->roles()->lists('name');
    }

    public function isSuperAdmin(){
        return $this->roles()->where('name', '=', 'admin')->exists();
    }

}
Obras maestras animadas - ¿Qué peli, anime, manga, libro, etc. consideras una obra maestra?
Look at that!  And I’m a contributor, offering some indispensable guidance on the contents of your repairs kit. Go on, treat yourself to a nice crisp Guardian/Observer double at the weekend. They’ll have probably paid for themselves within seven days if you follow all their frugal advice.
Text © Sarah Ditum, 2010; image © The Guardian.
I have had one lone moment of entrepreneurial inspiration in my life. When I was eight or nine, me and a friend realised her house was located next to a prime natural resource in the primary school economy: a huge conker tree. We devoted long after-school evenings to filling carrier bags with the glossy brown crop. We sorted and graded our goods. And then we took our conkers to school and we sold them.
Obviously, selling conkers is absurd – and I remember other pupils telling us, disgustedly, that they could pick up conkers for themselves. All the same, lots of children bought ours. Because they were there and ready to use at breaktimes? Because other children were buying them too? I have no idea really – like I said, this was a very uncharacteristic moment of nous – but for several days the conker-trading went on successfully.
Then, some other children decided to set up a rival conker operation. At this point, a real entrepreneur would have brought on the corkscrew and bootlaces (to offer a service angle, not to shiv the competition) or diversified into another product altogether. Instead, I got into a snit about losing my conker monopoly and left my now-devalued harvest to moulder in a garage; shortly after, the headteacher put a stop to the whole black market in vegetable matter.
Conkers are wildly accessible commodity, but in the right circumstance and to the right people, they were saleable – even if my tiny startup was not designed to withstand an open market. And what did I learn from this experience? Nothing, apparently: if you want to make my pre-teen experiment in capitalism into an allegory for journalism and paid content, then I am currently a horse chestnut, hurling my fruit at the floor for someone else to pick up and value. At least, I suppose, I’m doing what I’m best at.
© Sarah Ditum, 2009. Photo by Balakov, used under Creative Commons.
When I decided to launch myself as a freelance writer in February this year, I chose a shockingly bad time to do it. A recession, collapsing advertising budgets, online competition – at one point, it looked as though magazines were going under as fast as I could query them. I’ve been fortunate enough to have got as much work as I need every month since I started, but every week includes as many disappointments as triumphs. For every pitch that leads to a commission, I’ve probably made five or six that went nowhere. Honestly, the ratio could be even worse: if I kept a full tally, I’d probably burn my keyboard in despair.
Now, six months after graduating, my parents still pay my cellphone bill and I am working full-time making