Empty Nightingale hospitals are quietly dismantled ‘because there aren’t enough staff to run them’

Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as medics warn there are too few doctors and nurses to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping London’s of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs directing patients to wards, while those in Birmingham and Sunderland are yet to re-open. An eye-watering £220million of taxpayers’ … Read more

Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled with help from social network analysis

Friendship is everything: Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled by using social network analysis to map syndicate members’ connections, study claims  Criminal networks like the Mafia are hard for law enforcement to disrupt Researchers from the UK and Italy studied data on a real-life Mafia syndicate They report a way to pick the members whose arrest would be … Read more